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    The publisher was encouraged by the sales of "Precious" and hurriedly published "Roaring Heights" and "Agnes Grey" in December 1847, although the errors in the sample books raised by Emily and Anne were basically not corrected.  Critics were shocked by "Roaring Heights" and ignored "Agnes Grey".

    "Agnes Grey" was originally titled "A Segment of a Person's Life" and tells the story of Agnes Grey, a delicate girl who has been loved since childhood and takes the initiative to work as a governess to help families in financial distress.

    The gentlemen she met appeared to be very graceful and elegant in conversation, but in fact they were mentally deficient and took pleasure in sarcasm and insulting others; the hostess did not care what the children thought, but was just arrogant; the children were completely spoiled and did not know how to respect others.  , playing around all day or abusing animals.

    Agnes Gray had a hard time letting her children learn, feeling like a complete stranger in a strange place.  She controlled her emotions with great self-control, insisted on influencing her children with kindness, taught them to be kind to animals, and resisted the bad influence from her father and uncle.

    Eventually, Agnes became friends with the students, and eventually married the equally kind-hearted minister Weston.

    In British history, there were many novels with female governesses as the protagonists in the 1840s.  Unlike other novels that use the perspective of a governess to observe huge social and economic changes, or where the protagonist enters society only when she is dissatisfied with her family, the protagonist in "Agnes Grey" takes the initiative to enter society at home.

    Anne pays attention to the psychological changes of the heroine in the book to truthfully reflect society's indifference and injustice to female governesses as a group, and gain people's attention and support. Just like what she said in the book, if a parent gains from it  Some useful revelation, or some unfortunate governess might benefit a little from it, and all my troubles would have been in vain.

    It is different from the more exaggerated narrative style of Charlotte and Emily.  Anne's narrative style in "Agnes Grey" is simple and natural, striving for moderation and even has religious implications.

    The famous Irish writer George Moore called it the best prose narrative work, but Anne's realistic style and simple and restrained writing style are also one of the reasons why critics and later readers ignored this book.

    After entering 1848, all the Bront?s fell ill, and Anne alone fell ill twice.  In order to comfort Reverend Bronte, who was suffering from a cold and had to take care of Branwell, Anne asked Charlotte to tell her father about their success in school. Reverend Bronte was very happy.

    In the last week of June 1848, Anne's novel "The Tenant of Wildfield Hall", which combines Thorpe Green's life experience with Branwell's downfall, was published. It was an immediate success and sold out within six weeks.  .

    But publisher Newby deleted many passages.  He defrauded Anne of her royalties and tried to convince the public that the author of "The Tenant of Wildfield Hall" and "Precious" was one person to promote the book.

    To clarify the facts, Charlotte and Anne traveled to London in 1848 to identify themselves to publisher George Smith.  Years later, George Smith recalled the impression Anne left on him: an elegant, quiet, and very reserved woman.  His appearance is not beautiful, but he is lovable.  Her behavior strangely showed the need for protection and encouragement, and she always maintained a sincere look, which made people feel sympathy.

    "The Tenant of Wildfell Manor" tells the story of a mysterious woman who brings her children and servants to Wildfell Manor, which has not been occupied for many years.

    She strives to live in seclusion, but she is still surrounded by rumors.  Gilbert Markham, a young farmer who doesn't believe the rumors, eventually learns of Helen's past from the diary she gave him.

    It turns out that Helen¡¯s husband, Arthur Huntington, had been pampered since childhood and used various means to make Helen fall in love with her blindly.  Huntington continued to drink heavily after his marriage.  He lived a dissolute life with many fair-weather friends and abused Helen who tried to persuade him to be a good person.

    Arthur also taught his son to drink, and Helen secretly added tartaric acid to the wine to make his son completely hate the taste of wine.  Arthur also tried to teach his son to curse and abuse animals. Helen, who had always been submissive, decided to run away and planned to live independently by becoming a painter.  But Arthur found out and burned the painting tools.

    Helen eventually ran away with her children and came to Wildfield Manor.  She hopes that Gilbert will no longer pursue herself, who is legally unable to marry.  Soon Helen learned that her husband was critically ill and rushed home to try to give her dying husband some comfort.  But Arthur Huntington refused.

    After Arthur Huntington died, Helen inherited the estate.  She was free to engage in painting.  Faced with Gilbert who was still pursuing her, Helen worried that she would lose her independent status after remarrying, but in the end they got married.

    "The Tenant of Wildfield Hall" is a work ahead of its time. At that time, women like Helen Huntington were either at the mercy of their husbands after getting married, orWhile working as a governess, Huntington left the family and lived independently as a painter.

    ¡°As May Sinclair tells it, the sound of Helen Huntington slamming her bedroom door in her husband¡¯s face echoed throughout Victorian England.

    The male images in this book are a microcosm of the society at that time. They generally had bad habits of drinking, dissipation, and abusing their family members, but this was commonplace in the society at that time.

    Anne Bronte attributed this to flaws in the education of men, and believed that society should adopt equal education methods for men and women.

    Anne's radical views immediately aroused opposition from some critics. For this reason, Anne added a strong-spoken preface to the second edition of "The Tenant of Whitefield Park" in which she emphasized Acton Bell's independence.  Sex, meaning that speculation about the gender of the author is all irrelevant, what matters is telling the truth, because the truth always conveys its own morality to those who can accept it.

    ¡°When we have to write about sinful and immoral people, I firmly believe that it is better to describe them as they really are, rather than as they wish to be seen by the reader.

    Charlotte disliked this novel very much. She believed that the choice of subject matter was a mistake. Jane could not imagine a subject matter that was not in line with the author's character and was not in tune with the author's character.

    I think that writing about simple and natural things, with serene descriptions and simple feelings, is what Acton Bell is good at.  She refused to reprint the novel, and the publisher, out of respect for Charlotte's feelings, did not publish a single volume of the novel until after her death.

    George Moore admired the novel's themes and style, which were reminiscent of Jane Austen, but disliked the double narrative structure in which the hero quotes from the heroine's diary in letters to friends.

    The radical themes of the work, the complex dual narrative structure and the failure to reprint it in time have limited the spread of this novel. However, today¡¯s history has regarded this work as one of the most famous works together with "Precious", "Dombey and Son" and "Vanity Fair".  A representative of the writers' questioning and criticism of society during that period.

    One of the Demon Guardians - Wolf

    Virginia Woolf (or translated as Virginia Woolf, January 25, 1882-March 28, 1941).  British female writer, known as the pioneer of modernism and feminism in the twentieth century.

    She was a central figure in London between the two world wars and a member of the Bloomsbury Group.  The best-known novels include "Mrs. Dalloway", "Lighthouse Walk", "Jacob's Room", "Orlando", the essay "A Room of One's Own" and its famous saying: A woman must have her own little income and independence.  Room.

    Born in London, her maiden name was Adeline Virginia Stephen.  Both parents were widowed, so Woolf lived with her half-siblings in a family that spanned three marriages.

    Woolf¡¯s mother was a stunning beauty who served as a model for the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward.  Woolf's father, Sir Leslie, was a prominent editor, critic and biographer at the time.
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