{"id":9111,"date":"2023-09-17T16:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2023-09-17T16:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T23:12:48","slug":"agnes-grey-by-anne-bronte-comedy-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/17\/agnes-grey-by-anne-bronte-comedy-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: Comedy Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored-495x600.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored-99x120.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored-768x931.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored-1268x1536.jpg 1268w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored-41x50.jpg 41w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/1280px-The_Bronte_Sisters_by_Patrick_Branwell_Bronte_restored.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" \/><\/a>A zillion years ago I took a college English class on the Bronte Sisters. We were told about the intense literary rivalry of the three sisters. Each sister trying to outwit the other.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t make heads or tales of the Agnes Grey story. It was just so&#8230; &#8230; so preposterous! So many scenes were outlandish but done with a straight face. It finally occurred to me that it must be a (secret) comedy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lVpJFTKO8pY\">Give it a listen<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/767\">a read<\/a> and tell me it isn&#8217;t the best kept secret comedy you haven&#8217;t heard in a while!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A zillion years ago I took a college English class on the Bronte Sisters. We were told about the intense literary rivalry of the three sisters. Each sister trying to outwit the other. I couldn&#8217;t make heads or tales of the Agnes Grey story. It was just so&#8230; &#8230; so preposterous! So many scenes were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10192,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions\/10192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}