governesses

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governesses

Nanny McPhee

the collected tales of Nurse Matilda
2005
The incorrigible Brown children, who devour nannies, nurse-maids, and governesses, finally meet their match.

Murder in a mill town

2004
Governess Nell Sweeney is called upon to help locate a young girl who may have run off with her boyfriends; but as Nell traces Bridget's path through backalley streets and the seedy parts of town, she finds herself caught in a dangerous trap.

Jane Eyre

1980

Jane Eyre

2006
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

Jane Eyre

1983
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

Jane Eyre

1994
When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.

Jane Eyre

2008

Vanity fair

2005
A satirical panorama of upper-middle-class life and manners in London at the beginning of the nineteenth century featuring Becky Sharp, who must use all her wit, charm, and considerable sex appeal to escape her drab destiny as a governess.

Jane Eyre

an authoritative text
2000

The turn of the screw

1993
Two children are haunted by the evil spirits of two former servants.

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