Anne Brontë – Agnes Grey
31 March 2027
11:00am-12:30pm
Online
Event status:
Applications being accepted
Location:
Online
Dates:
31 March 2027
Study Format:
Online - live
Fees:
£15.00
Though for some time, Anne Brontë was treated as the least innovative and exciting of the writers, in recent decades her qualities have been acknowledged and reputation enhanced. We shall look at Agnes Grey in the context of Victorian ‘governess novels’ and the problem of the well-born, educated, but impoverished woman. We shall consider the style of Agnes Grey, declared by one critic to be ‘the most perfect prose narrative in English letters’, and make up our own minds about the novel’s place in the Brontë pantheon.
This lecture is part of The Brontës Fiction lecture series, taking place on Wednesdays from 10 March to 14 April 2027. You may either register for individual lectures or the entire lecture series at a reduced price.
This lecture will close to enrolments at 23:59 GMT on 28 March 2027.
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| Description | Costs |
|---|---|
| Event fee | £15.00 |
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Prof Sandie Byrne
Sandie Byrne is Associate Professor of English Literature and Director of Studies in English, OUDCE and a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. She is the author of a number of books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing.
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