Author: Miss Ross
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The Governess of Private Life
Author: Miss Ross
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The governess; or, Politics in private life
Author: Governess
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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A Plot in Private Life and Other Tales
Author: Wilkie Collins
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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A Plot in Private Life and Other Tales by [William] Wilkie Collins
Author: Wilkie Collins
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Celebrated Trials Connected with the Aristocracy in the Relations of Private Life
Author: Peter Burke
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Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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A Plot in Private Life
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382304724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382304724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
The Private Life of a King. Embodying the Suppressed Memoirs of the Prince of Wales, Afterwards George IV. of England, Etc
Author: John BANVARD
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Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Pages : 684
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The Private Life of a King
Author: John Banvard
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
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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 Private Life of Marie Antoinette ...
Author: Mme Campan (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette)
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 634
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