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larkinj 's review for:
Agnes Grey
by Anne Brontë
I can see a lot of what makes Anne Brontë, and all the Brontë sisters so talented as authors in Agnes Grey, but she's just not 100% there yet with this novel. The moral backbone and constant tension that made Tenant of Wildfell Hall so memorable feels clunky and unnatural in this novel, even if the main themes are the same. Especially towards the end when Agnes receives her happy ending, it almost doesn't feel real... probably due to Anne herself never being married and dying relatively young at 29. She was writing of a bright future and happy ending she wanted for herself, but never obtained. That, and many of the realities constantly written of in Brontë novels always make me feel sad. Or in the phrase of the time, brought about a sigh of melancholy.