Governesses

Governesses were a threat to both their employers and the servants of the house, reminding their female employers of how close they were to finding themselves in a similar predicament.

Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

Governesses seldom earned enough to save for their old age, and their services were often exploited and undervalued.

Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

This Letter our young Hugonot found an Opportunity, to deliver, though with great Difficulty; for in those Houses they correspond very little, but live in Solitude and Silence, nor ever go into each other's Cells, those Places being the Recesses for solitary Meditation: But more especially the Religious Dames converse not with the young Ladies who are there for Education, except those that are placed over them, as Teachers and Governesses.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

There Catherine returned to the teaching profession, but in a slightly different way: she set up the Governesses 'Institution supplying British and foreign governesses to families and schools.

'The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes: 2007

Governesses, 'she observed,' must ever be kept in a sort of isolation: it is the only means of maintaining that distance which the reserve of English manners and the decorum of

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Governesses who look in at summer-house doors are not the only obstacles to the course of true-love.

No Name 2003

“Governesses customarily reside at the home of their charges.”

A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995

“Governesses customarily reside at the home of their charges.”

A GIFT OF LOVE Judith McNaught 1995

Governesses frequently made delightful bedfellows.

Ungrateful Governess Balogh, Mary 1988

Hospital for the cure of Consumption, and the Governesses 'Benevolent

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various