EPISODE 3: Anne Bronte, ”Agnes Grey” (1847)

Chapters 1-5. 0:00-Governesses in fact & fiction. 5:39-Writing & publishing Agnes Grey. 6:48-Educated middle-class women. 8:40-Anne as governess. 9:28-The novel begins. 10:00-Agnes’s family. 13:20-Leaving home. 14:13-Welcome to the Bloomfields. 15:10-The meating. 17:45-Animal cruelty. 21:00-Class & intelligence. 22:27-Class & violence. 23:30-Male violence. 26:40-Educating boys. 30:30-The Bloomfield daughters. 31:28-Victorian views of children. 33:35-Misbehavior & Miss Grey. 35:00-Governesses remembered.

Chapters 6-16. 38:00-Meet the Murrays. 39:38-Rosalie, the coquette. 42:08-Rosalie torments Hatfield. 44:55-Suitors & power. 47:40-Mathilda, hoyden & tomboy. 52:35-Agnes, anemic & heroic. 54:57-Upper class superiority. 56:15-Class & character. 57:30-Invisible Agnes.

Chapters 17-25. 1:02:40-Hatfield vs. Weston. 1:05:28-Hatfield & Rosalie vs. Weston & Agnes. 1:07:23: Mathilda & the forbidden regions. 1:09:00-Rosalie & heartlessness. 1:10:12-Rosalie, Lady Ashby. 1:12:10-Dissipation & daughter. 1:18:00-On the beach with Edward & Snap. 1:19:00-Married with children. 1:20:05-No happy ending.

Text: Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey. 1847. Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.

Interludes: Frederic Chopin, Polonaise-Fantasy in A-flat major, Op. 61 (1846), performed by Jonathan Bliss, 2009.

Illustration: Anne Bronte, by Charlotte Bronte (c. 1845), Wikipedia.

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