Anne Bronte

For the Bronte-lover, this single volume is easier to bring down to the beach, on the airplane, or to the ski lodge than three separate books. Featuring the full texts of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, these sisters' works provide a singular look at social injustice & gender issues in the context of gothic passion. 652 pages, softcover.

The Bronte sisters’ seven novels are collected in a beautiful slipcase with metallic details and original artwork.  This affordable collection includes Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte; and Jane Eyre, The Professor, Shirley, and Villette by Charlotte Bronte. Softcovers.

A beautiful boxed set of four Hardcover Classics by the Brontë sisters, including Wuthering Heights, Villette, Jane Eyre, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
 
To celebrate the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, Penguin Classics presents the Brontë sisters’ four greatest works in a boxed set of lavish, clothbound Hardcover Classics editions designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. From the bleak moors of Wuthering Heights to the French boarding school of Villette to the gloomy, mysterious country estates of Jane Eyre and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, these four novels show the most famous siblings in literature at the peak of their powers.
 
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Unfairly judged by her sisters and critics, Anne Bronte had a singular vision of women's rights that extended beyond the "rights" given in her own time.

Divided into a unique three-part style, we learn of Helen Huntington's life via Gilbert Markham's letters--and in the middle, her own diary, which he transcribes faithfully. Escaping the corrupting influence of her husband (whom she admits it was a mistake to marry), Helen flees for the sake of her son Arthur, carrying him away to the remote Wildfell Hall. With a strong sense of her religious convictions and duty, Helen revolts against the idea that men may go off and have affairs, get drunk,--in short, "be a man"--whilst she and her son suffer the consequences of such heathen behavior. 535 pages, softcover, with an introduction and notes.

‘The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere mockery … my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt’

When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes’s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë’s first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society.

This edition also includes Charlotte Brontë’s memoir of her sisters, theBiographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. Angeline Goreau examines Anne Brontë’s complex relationship with her sisters and her unhappy career as a governess as influences in writing Agnes Grey.

The story of the Bronte family is one of incredible romance, immense genius, and haunting sadness. From humble beginnings in Ireland the Reverend Patrick Bronte rose to the very heart of the reforming evangelical movement of the 19th century. Patrick's daughters Emily, Charlotte, and Anne came onto the pages of literary history with their novels, which still grip the imagination of readers today. But Branwell, the most promising of Patrick's children, is mourned for the wreck of his talent. All had the fire of deep emotions running in their veins. This biography traces the influence of Patrick Bronte's evangelical faith on the lives and work of all his children. Here is faith in the face of unremitting tragedy, imagination soaring out of pitiful sadness, and doubt vying with hope for dominance in the story of a literary family as fascinating as their fiction. 232 pages, eBook.