Agnes Grey
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Your father's failed investment ends your protected life at the parsonage, and you, Agnes Grey, talk your parents into your first place: governess to the Bloomfield children at Wellwood. Mrs. Bloomfield promises firmness without indulgence and precious little else — no welcome, no tea, and no real authority over seven-year-old Tom, who greets you with a whip and a nest of stolen fledglings he means to keep. By the time Mrs. Bloomfield asks you to prove you can manage him, the household has already left you nothing to manage him with.
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- The First PlaceThe Grey Parsonage and Wellwood