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  • Or do the ghosts exist only in the present governess's fevered mind?

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • Or do the ghosts exist only in the present governess's fevered mind?

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • The theater initially approached several professional dog handlers to find a small, hypo-allergenic performer Ms. Maxwell, who handles the animal on stage, is allergic for the part of the governess's dog.

    Barking on Stage for Equal Wage V.L. Hendrickson 2011

  • It is never clear if the ghosts are real or the product of the governess's increasingly unstable mind.

    Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories Kate Mosse 2010

  • Mr. Fassbender's lord of the cursed manor is worthy of his governess's love, even though he's no match for the one played by Timothy Dalton when it comes to bottomless despair or towering rage, and though he can't, or wisely won't, touch the doomy self-regard that Orson Welles brought to the role.

    See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Or do the ghosts exist only in the present governess's fevered mind?

    Marc Porter Zasada: Opera: Brilliant Turn of the Screw Ends L.A. Season Marc Porter Zasada 2011

  • We cannot see her gold watch and chain on her breast, but her waist, "whose measurements were those of an earlier age" is of the kind that Ir ne N mirovsky whom we can see behind the governess's right shoulder, wearing an apologetic smile, and with two ribbons in her hair would try to describe twenty years later:

    'The Life of Irene Nemirovsky' 2010

  • Some of the harshest criticism seized on Brando's unlikely preoccupation with women's breath (his mother's, his governess's, a photographer's and Tallulah Bankhead's).

    Brando's Bookstore Cameo Role 2008

  • Jane Austen -- who, on the death of her father, was displaced from her home and became dependent on fortunately kind brothers -- was characteristically unromantic about a governess's fate.

    The Real-Life Jane Eyres 2008

  • Or are they mere products of the new governess's imagination?

    A Dreamlike View of Reality 2007

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