governesses

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The unseen guest

After returning from London, the three Incorrigible children and their governess, Miss Penelope Lumley, resume their normal routine while Penelope continues to uncover information about her past. When a noted explorer's prized ostrich gets lost in the woods, the Incorrigibles lead the search to recover it, but Penelope fears that allowing them to return to the wilderness will cause them to revert to their wolf-like behaviors.

The unmapped sea

Penelope takes the three incorrigible children to Brighton in hopes of discovering how to end the wolfish curse on the Ashton family before the newest Ashton baby arrives.

The interrupted tale

Miss Penelope Lumley, governess to the three Incorrigible children who were raised by wolves, is invited to speak at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females. The academy's board of trustees asks Penelope to demonstrate the academic progress of her three charges to evaluate her Swanburne education and determine the future of the school. Now Penelope's job with the Incorrigibles is at risk.

The hidden gallery

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.

Jane Eyre

2005
A simplified, abridged version of Charlotte Bront?'s novel in which Jane Eyre, an orphan, becomes a governess for the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester and experiences ghostly happenings in his home.

Jane Eyre

1980
An orphan girl who accepts employment as a governess finds herself involved in a family secret and in love with her employer.

Jane Eyre

1962

Love on assignment

2010
Charlotte Hale, a secretary for a local newspaper in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900, is given the chance to prove herself as a reporter when her boss asks her to go undercover as a governess to investigate a scandal about Daniel Wilmont, a young, widowed religion professor who writes a controversial column in a rival paper, but she begins to have qualms when she discovers Daniel to be honorable, sincere, and easy to love.

The collected tales Nurse Matilda

Nanny McPhee, the motion picture
2005
The incorrigible Brown children, who devour nannies, nurse-maids, and governesses, finally meet their match.

Jane Eyre

2010
A retelling of the classic novel in which an orphaned young woman, in early nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.

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