Published in December 1847 under the pseudonym Acton Bell, Agnes Grey was the first of two novels by Anne Brontë. It details the experiences of the eponymous character, the daughter of a minister employed as a governess, and moving between rich houses of the Bloomfields and the Murrays. The novel is in most respects autobiographical, drawn from Anne's own experiences employed as a governess at the Robinson household for five years with the only real fictional aspect being the resolution through