governesses

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governesses

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.

Jane Eyre

2007
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.

Jane Eyre

authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism
1987

Down to the bonny glen

2001
In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.

The flight of Gemma Hardy

a novel
2012
Gemma Hardy, an orphan originally from Iceland, sets out on a journey to escape her oppressive upbringing, and finds independence and love.

Jane Eyre

1982
The heroine, a plain and penniless governess, falls in love with the brooding, melancholy master of Thornfield.

The wolves of Willoughby Chase

2001
Surrounded by villains of the first order, brave Bonnie and gentle cousin Sylvia conquer all obstacles in this Victorian melodrama.

Born wicked

2012
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.

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