Hello! Thank you very much for your review. It's always interesting to know how others evaluate the book you have read. I stopped and listened to your review, because I liked your pronunciation and the language. For me as a non native English speaker, it's very important. I liked your point of view. For me the book has no flaws as I like happy endings. However, I liked also 'Villette' with it's sad ending, but that is very different story.
Thank you so much for taking time to comment. Even if I might have changed the ending, the quality of the writing in this book was extremely high and I greatly enjoyed reading it. I haven't got round to Villette yet, but one day I will.
Hello Jason! Thank you for your interesting review of Agnes Grey. I share the same opinion as to the very moralizing tone used by Anne Brontë. Still her novel is good and overall pleasant to read, but I remember I was quite disappointed by the development of the story, which starts very well in my opinion (for what it's worth). Maybe I expected too much from this book, something powerful, subtle and darker. But enough with the very personal opinion, perhaps reading it again would be a good thing and hopefully more enjoyable this time, as, to quote your words Jason, "on the whole it is an excellent book". Thank you again for your interesting and well-structured review! Always a pleasure to listen to you speak of literature.
Thanks for this. Seems we were both left disappointed with how the story slides from the realistic depiction of life with the Bloomfield's to the increasingly less plausible events at the Murray's. I floated this idea on a comment above, but I think the novel would've been much better if, when Snap ran up to Agnes on the beach, he was in the company of the rat-catcher, who would then pass on some bad news about Mr Weston. I think Gissing, for example, who examines the fate of these discarded women in his novels, would have taken that route. But never mind, it's on to Susanna Rowson's Lucy and Charlotte Temple next.
Yes, I read your comment about an "alternative" route to Agnes Grey. It's a very interesting point of view, and for sure the story would have been more realistic. But...Anne Brontë chose a different path, maybe as a form of therapy to heal her governess wounds. Who knows? I have no idea what Susanna Rowson's book is about so your review of it is highly expected!
I'm glad that you liked Agnes Grey. Even though, it isn't as strong as her sisters novels like Jane Eyre and Wuthering heights, in my humble opinion is an important novel. It gives us a glimpse of how governors were treated at the time. I consider Anne Bronte as a contemporary author. In both her novels she deals with important issues that at the time few authors has talked about.
Thank you, I knew you'd comment! As you've read the novel, let me tell you something I was going to say, regarding the way Agnes Grey slides from realism in the first half towards more of a genre romance; you know the moment when Snap runs up to Agnes on the beach? I thought that a wonderful, alternative, realistic ending would be for her to look up and see not Mr. Weston, but the rat-catcher, down at the sea-side for his annual weekend holiday! Perhaps you won't agree, but it's amusing to me how that simple act of substitution would create an entirely different novel. Perhaps the rat-catcher could also tell Agnes the sad news of Mr. Weston's passing, or of his marriage... to Matilda Murray.
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan that would be an interesting alternative. And would have been interesting to see how that information would have affected Agnes, what would have done with her life?. You are right a simple act can change the story. It happens in real life, what if we had chosen a different path how our life would have changed?. We will still be the same or a completely other person?
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Hello Jason!
Even if those authors are well famous, you give them a spécial spirit! Thanks and very good day too you!
Thank you! I am reading Anne's other novel now. The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall, which is even better.
Hello! Thank you very much for your review. It's always interesting to know how others evaluate the book you have read. I stopped and listened to your review, because I liked your pronunciation and the language. For me as a non native English speaker, it's very important. I liked your point of view. For me the book has no flaws as I like happy endings. However, I liked also 'Villette' with it's sad ending, but that is very different story.
Thank you so much for taking time to comment. Even if I might have changed the ending, the quality of the writing in this book was extremely high and I greatly enjoyed reading it. I haven't got round to Villette yet, but one day I will.
I will listen review for it for sure.👍@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan
Hello Jason! Thank you for your interesting review of Agnes Grey. I share the same opinion as to the very moralizing tone used by Anne Brontë. Still her novel is good and overall pleasant to read, but I remember I was quite disappointed by the development of the story, which starts very well in my opinion (for what it's worth). Maybe I expected too much from this book, something powerful, subtle and darker. But enough with the very personal opinion, perhaps reading it again would be a good thing and hopefully more enjoyable this time, as, to quote your words Jason, "on the whole it is an excellent book". Thank you again for your interesting and well-structured review! Always a pleasure to listen to you speak of literature.
Thanks for this. Seems we were both left disappointed with how the story slides from the realistic depiction of life with the Bloomfield's to the increasingly less plausible events at the Murray's. I floated this idea on a comment above, but I think the novel would've been much better if, when Snap ran up to Agnes on the beach, he was in the company of the rat-catcher, who would then pass on some bad news about Mr Weston. I think Gissing, for example, who examines the fate of these discarded women in his novels, would have taken that route. But never mind, it's on to Susanna Rowson's Lucy and Charlotte Temple next.
Yes, I read your comment about an "alternative" route to Agnes Grey. It's a very interesting point of view, and for sure the story would have been more realistic. But...Anne Brontë chose a different path, maybe as a form of therapy to heal her governess wounds. Who knows?
I have no idea what Susanna Rowson's book is about so your review of it is highly expected!
I'm glad that you liked Agnes Grey. Even though, it isn't as strong as her sisters novels like Jane Eyre and Wuthering heights, in my humble opinion is an important novel. It gives us a glimpse of how governors were treated at the time. I consider Anne Bronte as a contemporary author.
In both her novels she deals with important issues that at the time few authors has talked about.
Thank you, I knew you'd comment! As you've read the novel, let me tell you something I was going to say, regarding the way Agnes Grey slides from realism in the first half towards more of a genre romance; you know the moment when Snap runs up to Agnes on the beach? I thought that a wonderful, alternative, realistic ending would be for her to look up and see not Mr. Weston, but the rat-catcher, down at the sea-side for his annual weekend holiday! Perhaps you won't agree, but it's amusing to me how that simple act of substitution would create an entirely different novel. Perhaps the rat-catcher could also tell Agnes the sad news of Mr. Weston's passing, or of his marriage... to Matilda Murray.
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan that would be an interesting alternative. And would have been interesting to see how that information would have affected Agnes, what would have done with her life?. You are right a simple act can change the story. It happens in real life, what if we had chosen a different path how our life would have changed?. We will still be the same or a completely other person?