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This short novel is neat and satisfying. It’s the story of a girl who decides to become a governess; Agnes is positively saintly, but with a quite amusing wryness in her descriptions of the people she meets. She certainly doesn’t make governessing sound like much fun; doubly so since Bront\u00eb based the story partly on her own experiences.<\/p>\n
Inevitably, there is a romantic interest. He seems quite unpromising when first introduced, though I identified him immediately as The One; it’s that kind of story. Later, when she describes his appearance, the words are an exact — exact! — description of Colin Firth as Mr Darcy.<\/p>\n
I loved the way that Bront\u00eb uses New Zealand as the “epitome of distance and mystery”, not once, but twice. Perhaps at that time, New Zealand was the new Timbuktu. I like to think that Bront\u00eb would have been amused to know that even more than a century after her death, people would still be enjoying her work, even in places as exotic as New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This short novel is neat and satisfying. It’s the story of a girl who decides to become a governess; Agnes is positively saintly, but with a quite amusing wryness in her descriptions of the people she meets. She certainly doesn’t … Continue reading