The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels
written by the youngest of the famous Bronte sisters.
Anne Bronte wrote these two fantastically successful novels just before her
tragically early death, both of them in a much more grittily realistic mode than
the more romantic ones favored by her sisters. "Agnes Grey, "the story of a
governess working for disdainful and cruel employers, is a wrenching account of
the desperate straits faced by Victorian women without money or husband. "The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall "tells a story that was shocking for its time: a woman
leaves her alcoholic and abusive husband in order