The Victorian Governess

Author : Kathryn Hughes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852853259
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Governess written by Kathryn Hughes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mrs. Oliphant
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of a Governess written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of a Governess" is one of the works by the master of domestic realism, the historical novel, and tales of the supernatural, Margaret Oliphant. She tells a story of a young girl ready for the self-denial of a governess position and the enclosed life of the old mansion, but, when turning pages, we learn that the fate and Mrs. Oliphant have made another plan for the young governess.

Author : Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Governess Novel written by Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. Based on a comprehensive set of nineteenth-century novels, governess manuals, articles and biographical material, it shows how the Victorian Governess novel made up a vital part of the governess debate, as well as of the more general debate on female education.

Author : Trev Lynn Broughton
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312210892
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Governess written by Trev Lynn Broughton and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1997 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book gives insight into the life of the Victorian governess, examining becoming a governess, methods and skills, problems they faced, the experience of living away from home, and fantasies of and about the governess.

Author : Ruth Brandon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779751
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governess written by Ruth Brandon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Julie M. Lippmann
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Governess written by Julie M. Lippmann and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Governess' is a coming-of-age novel written by Julie Mathilde Lippmann. Nan is a tough and independent girl who urgently requires a governess. Being a 14-year-old girl without a mother and with her father in India, Nan does not have to answer to the housekeeper. Miss Blake, a kind and small-built woman, uses her strong determination and gentle affection to teach and guide Nan.

Author : Governess
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022671423
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Governess; Or, Politics in Private Life written by Governess and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gripping novel exposes the darker side of politics and society in nineteenth-century England, as seen through the eyes of a young governess. Through its vivid portrayal of the personal and political conflicts that threaten to tear apart the protagonists' lives, this book offers a searing critique of the hypocrisy and corruption that pervaded British society during the Victorian era. With its unforgettable characters and its unflinching depiction of the human cost of political ambition, this book is a classic of its genre. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : T. J. Lustig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521131599
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry James and the Ghostly written by T. J. Lustig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of ghosts, and liminal experience in general, in the fiction of Henry James.

Author : Camille Oster
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781719942805
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Governess: A Classic Victorian Gothic Romance written by Camille Oster and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Israel Zangwill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Serio-comic Governess written by Israel Zangwill and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: