Author: Emma Raymond Pitman
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Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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My Governess Life, Or, Using My One Talent
Author: Emma Raymond Pitman
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Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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My Governess Life: Or, Using My One Talent, Etc
Author: Emma Raymond PITMAN
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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My Governess Life; Or, Using My One Talent
Author: Emma Raymond Pitman
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Governess Education: My governess life, or, Using my one talent
Author: Setsuko Kagawa
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Category : Governesses
Languages : en
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Category : Governesses
Languages : en
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
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Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Governess
Author: Ruth Brandon
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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.
The Nineteenth Century and After
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Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Category : Nineteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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The Twentieth Century
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Governess Life; its trials, duties and encouragements. By the Author of “Memorials of two Sisters,” etc
Author: Author of Memorials of two sisters
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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