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Book Synopsis My Dear Governess by : Edith Wharton
Download or read book My Dear Governess written by Edith Wharton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a treasure trove of 135 letters, written over a period of 42 years, from Edith Wharton to her teacher, considered a great find in the literary world, given that only three letters from the Age of Innocence author's childhood and early adulthood were thought to have survived.
Book Synopsis The Victorian Governess by : Kathryn Hughes
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.
Book Synopsis Breaking the Governess's Rules by : Michelle Styles
Download or read book Breaking the Governess's Rules written by Michelle Styles and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How delightful to meet you again, Miss Louisa Sibson.' Jonathon, Lord Chesterholm's eyes bored holes into Louisa Sibson's back. The former fiancée he's thought dead is very much alive… Louisa has rebuilt her life, after being dishonourably dismissed from her post as governess for allowing Jonathon to seduce her. Now Louisa lives by a rulebook of morals and virtue—the devastating Lord Chesterholm will not ruin her again! But Jonathon will get to the bottom of Louisa's disappearance—and he'll enjoy breaking a few of her rules along the way…!
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 316 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.
Book Synopsis A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen by : Agnes Porter
Download or read book A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen written by Agnes Porter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We only know a surprisingly small number of eighteenth-century women as personalities. This is true, in particular, of women who had to work for their living. Which is why the survival of the letters and journals of Miss Agnes Porter, dating from 1788 to 1814, constitutes an unusually important find. Miss Porter, the daughter of a Church of England clergyman, was born in 1752 with brains but not looks or wealth. Although she would have liked to marry, her various hopes ended in disappointment. She therefore had to earn her living as a governess, working principally in teaching the daughters and grand-daughter of the second Earl of Ilchester. Agnes Porter was neither morbidly religious, as were many of her Victorian successors, nor did she spend her time dwelling on the unfairness of her situation. She emerges as a intelligent, warm and likeable woman ready to make the best of her lot. Joanna Martin has provided a substantial introduction which sets Miss Porter in her historical context. A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen is a detailed, and very early, portrait of a woman entering a profession.
Book Synopsis The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray ... by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray ... written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Works by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Works written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vanity Fair by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Vanity Fair written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of Thackeray by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book The Works of Thackeray written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vanity Fair written by Thackeray W. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Ярмарка тщеславия” не только изобилует неожиданными сюжетными поворотами, но и блестяще отражает дух времени. Ироничное, порой саркастичное произведение, изобличающее сборище подлых самовлюблённых людей, остаётся интересным и актуальным и по сей день. Неудивительно, что именно эта история поисков счастья двух подруг считается вершиной творчества знаменитого английского классика! Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
Book Synopsis The Works of Mrs. Sherwood by : Mary Martha Sherwood
Download or read book The Works of Mrs. Sherwood written by Mary Martha Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Complete Works by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Complete Works written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thackeray's Complete Works: Roundabout papers, to which is added The second funeral of Napoleon, and Critical reviews by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Thackeray's Complete Works: Roundabout papers, to which is added The second funeral of Napoleon, and Critical reviews written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Governess Gone Rogue by : Laura Lee Guhrke
Download or read book Governess Gone Rogue written by Laura Lee Guhrke and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Lady Truelove . . . My twin brother and I need a new mother, though Papa insists he’ll never marry again. Must be nice, brainy, and fond of cats . . . Lady Truelove may be London’s most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor, not a new mother. They need a man tough enough to make his hellions tow the line, and James is determined to find one. Miss Amanda Leighton, former schoolteacher and governess, knows she has all the qualifications to be a tutor. And while female tutors are unheard of, Amanda isn’t about to lose the chance at her dream job because of pesky details like that. If Lord Kenyon insists on hiring a man, then she has only one option . . . Jamie isn’t sure what to make of his new employee, until he realizes the shocking truth—beneath the ill-fitting suits, his boys’ tutor is a woman. An unconventional, outspoken, thoroughly intriguing woman. Despite Amanda’s deception, he can’t dismiss her when his boys are learning so much. Yet Jamie, too, is learning surprising lessons—about desire, seduction, and passionate second chances . . .
Book Synopsis Life and Works of William Makepeace Thackeray ... by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Life and Works of William Makepeace Thackeray ... written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected ed by : Douglas William Jerrold
Download or read book The writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected ed written by Douglas William Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Works ... by : Douglas William Jerrold
Download or read book Works ... written by Douglas William Jerrold and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
