As she laboured away in her neat, elegant handwriting, Anne must have felt that she was writing a novel that would go off like a bomb.Īgnes Grey sticks close to the facts of Anne’s life. Although her job was difficult and thankless, she had realised that it was providing her with excellent material, that she was telling a story no one else was telling. She had to write in secret because she was skewering her haughty employers and her peremptory pupils on the page. Leaning on the desk’s writing slope (which was decadently lined in pink velvet), Anne could go on with her novel. I imagine she must have made her excuses in the evenings, and escaped the drawing room, where she had to do the boring bits of her pupils’ sewing, and often felt awkward and humiliated – excluded from the conversation because she was not considered a lady, yet not allowed to sit with the servants either, because governesses had to be something of a lady, or how could they teach their pupils to be ladies?Īnne must have stolen away to her room and pulled out her small, portable writing desk. A nne Brontë started writing her first novel some time between 18 while she was working as a governess for the Robinson family, at Thorp Green near York.
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