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Chapter of Governesses
Author | : Katharine Leaf West |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002256520 |
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Chapter of Governesses
Author | : Katharine West |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:833675618 |
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The Victorian Governess
Author | : Kathryn Hughes |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1852853255 |
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The figure of the governess is very familiar from nineteenth-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This book is the first rounded exploration of what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of previously undiscovered sources, Kathryn Hughes describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of governesses. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects. The governess provides a key to the central Victorian concept of the lady. Her education consisted of a series of accomplishments designed to attract a husband able to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed from birth. Becoming a governess was the only acceptable way of earning money open to a lady whose family could not support her in leisure. Being paid to educate another woman's children set in play a series of social and emotional tensions. The governess was a surrogate mother, who was herself childless, a young woman whose marriage prospects were restricted, and a family member who was sometimes mistaken for a servant.
The Governess
Author | : Trev Lynn Broughton,Ruth Symes |
Publsiher | : Alan Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040041462 |
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Who was the Victorian governess and why did her fate inspire generations of novelists and reformers? This anthology brings together a wide range of material - including first-hand accounts and extracts from classics - to examine her life.
Other People s Daughters
Author | : Ruth Brandon |
Publsiher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2011-12-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781780222486 |
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A rich and fascinating account of the lives of Victorian governesses, exploring nineteenth-century attitudes to women, family and class. If a nineteenth century lady had neither a husband to support her nor money of her own, almost her only recourse was to live in someone else's household and educate their children - in particular, their daughters. Marooned within the confines of other people's lives, neither servants nor family members, governesses occupied an uncomfortable social limbo. And being poor and insignificant, their papers were mostly lost. But a few journals and letters have come down to us, giving a vivid record of what it was to be a lone professional woman at a time when such a creature officially did not exist.
Jane Eyre
Author | : Charlotte Brontë |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Charity-schools |
ISBN | : 0766607216 |
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A simplified, abridged version of Jane Eyre's experiences as a governess for the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester in nineteenth-century England.
Governess
Author | : Ruth Brandon |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780802779755 |
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Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane Austen in Emma, was to "retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever." However, in an ironic paradox, the governess, so marginal to her society, was central to its fiction-partly because governessing was the fate of some exceptionally talented women who later wrote novels based on their experiences. But personal experience was only one source, and writers like Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry James, and Jane Austen all recognized that the governess's solitary figure, adrift in the world, offered more novelistic scope than did the constrained and respectable wife. Ruth Brandon weaves literary and social history with details from the lives of actual governesses, drawn from their letters and journals, to craft a rare portrait of real women whose lives were in stark contrast to the romantic tales of their fictional counterparts. Governess will resonate with the many fans of Jane Austen and the Brontës, whose novels continue to inspire films and books, as well as fans of The Nanny Diaries and other books that explore the longstanding tension between mothers and the women they hire to raise their children.
Mothers and Governesses
Author | : Mothers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NLS:V000353732 |
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