# Agnes Grey — Character guide

> Key figures in Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë.

- [Agnes Grey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/agnes_grey.md): Agnes enters the world of paid employment with quiet resolve, determined to earn her own way rather than remain a burden on her family. She is thoughtful, observant, and morally serious, but her sensitivity makes her vul
- [Rosalie Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/rosalie_murray.md): Rosalie is the elder Murray daughter, raised to see her looks as currency and her admirers as trophies. She confides in Agnes with theatrical vanity, recounting her conquests and demanding admiration, yet her charm is re
- [Matilda Murray](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/matilda_murray.md): Matilda is loud, coarse, and gloriously unbothered by propriety, carrying a hunting whip and swearing like a groom. Her mother's belated campaign to reform her manners turns the household into a battleground, with Agnes 
- [Edward Weston](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/edward_weston.md): Mr. Weston is a clergyman of modest means whose earnest simplicity and genuine care for his parishioners set him apart from the pompous Mr. Hatfield. Agnes observes him with growing admiration, drawn to his unaffected go
- [Mr. Hatfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mr_hatfield.md): Mr. Hatfield is a man of the cloth whose vanity rivals Rosalie's own, striding through the parish with a sense of his own consequence and a taste for flattery. He pursues Rosalie with calculated attention, but his resent
- [Mary Ann](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mary_ann.md): Mary Ann is the elder Grey sister, married and settled, who offers Agnes practical counsel and a sympathetic ear when the hardships of her position threaten to overwhelm her. She represents the quiet domestic alternative
- [Mr. Bloomfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mr_bloomfield.md): Mr. Bloomfield presides over Wellwood House, where his children interrupt guests, rifle pockets, and know no shame, while his wife expects Agnes to impose order that neither parent supplies. He is less a tyrant than an a
- [Nancy Brown](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/nancy_brown.md): Nancy Brown lives in poverty near Horton Lodge, and her cottage is a refuge Agnes visits whenever she can slip away from her pupils. Their talks give Agnes room to reflect on faith, hardship, and the loneliness of govern
- [Lady Ashby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/lady_ashby.md): Rosalie's mother-in-law, a proud and domineering aristocrat.
- [Mrs. Bloomfield](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mrs_bloomfield.md): The weak, ineffectual mother of the Bloomfield children.
- [Thomas Ashby](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/thomas_ashby.md): Sir Thomas Ashby is the baronet Rosalie marries for title and fortune, only to find herself hurried off to his estate and kept there under the watch of his mother, Lady Ashby. His offence at her admirers and her spending
- [Mr. Robson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mr_robson.md): The coarse, drunken uncle of the Bloomfield children.
- [Fanny](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/fanny.md): A young servant at the Murray household.
- [Mark Wood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mark_wood.md): A poor, sickly cottager visited by Agnes and Weston.
- [Richard Grey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/richard_grey.md): Agnes's father, a poor clergyman who loses his fortune.
- [The Misses Green](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/misses_green.md): Two sisters, acquaintances of the Murray family.
- [Mrs. Grey](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mrs_grey.md): Agnes's loving and sensible mother.
- [Mr. Richardson](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/mr_richardson.md): A clergyman who assists Agnes in finding a teaching position.
- [Snap](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/snap.md): The Bloomfield family's abused dog.
- [Henry Meltham](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/agnes_grey_se/characters/henry_meltham.md): A young gentleman who flirts with Rosalie.

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