A governess is a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home. A governess often lives in the same residence...

or another male relation but had lost her mother, and was too old to have a governess. In the last case the companion would also act as a chaperone; at...

follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote country house, becomes convinced that they are haunted. The Turn of the Screw is considered a work...

published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English...

Roucoulle or de Rocoulle (1659–1741) was a French Huguenot educator and salonnaire active in Prussia. She was the governess first of Frederick William I of Prussia...

novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It concerns a young, inexperienced Governess sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually...

as a teacher on a salary of fifteen pounds. She has an opportunity to be a private governess, and in so doing double her salary, but her governess position...

punishment as a boy at the hands of the governess to whom he is sent, along with three female cousins, after taking indecent liberties with a household maid...

duchess. Later, during Christina's second marriage, she was appointed as governess to the duchess' daughters, Renata and Dorothea. Francesca was seen as...

(Charlotte Eléonore Madeleine; 1654–1744) was a French office holder of the French Royal Court. She was the governess of King Louis XV of France, great-grandson...

infancy), Maria Theresa (the last direct Habsburg sovereign), Maria Anna (Governess of the Austrian Netherlands), and Maria Amalia (who also died in infancy)...

Frances Brandon. In 1520, the Countess of Salisbury was appointed Mary's governess. Sir John Hussey (later Lord Hussey) was her chamberlain from 1530, and...

Australian drama A Country Practice on Seven Network. From 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993, a total of 1058 original episodes of A Country Practice...

placed in the care of the royal governess Louise de Prie. On 13 April 1705, Louis died of convulsions at the age of nine and a half months.: 176–177  Had he...

Countess of Kildare (died 1628), was a courtier and governess of Princess Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and a member of the House of Howard. Frances...

October 1784 – 9 September 1870) was the governess and later companion to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. Born to a Lutheran pastor, in 1819 Lehzen entered...

is who is a woman employed to teach children in a private house - i.e. woman housekeeper, governess, or the manageress of the household and in charge...

is characterised by what Nomis characterises as the "Golden Age of the Governess". No fewer than twenty establishments were documented as having existed...

A butler is usually male and in charge of male servants while a housekeeper is usually a woman and in charge of female servants. Traditionally, male servants...

aristocratic in appearance. She was known amongst her siblings as "the governess" for her domineering but also maternal ways. Tatiana was the closest of...

founded on her experience as a governess and on that of her brother's decline. Furthermore, they demonstrate her conviction, a legacy from her father, that...

mother and their governess, Marion Crawford. Lessons concentrated on history, language, literature, and music. Crawford published a biography of Elizabeth...

royal children were raised under the supervision of the governor and governess of the royal children, Claude d'Urfé and Françoise d'Humières, under the...

children. A governess concentrates on educating children inside their own home, and a kindergarten or schoolteacher does the same, but in a school environment...

a shallow character. Jane Fairfax also arrives to visit her aunt Miss Bates and grandmother Mrs. Bates for a few months before starting a governess position...

three weeks in 1712. He was raised under the supervision of the royal governess Louise de Prie. Like his parents, he too died of measles and was buried...

neither venture is successful. Louis hires Emily Richardson to be the new governess for his sisters. The two become instantly attracted to each other, much...

household was largely run by Victoria's childhood governess, Baroness Louise Lehzen from Hanover. Lehzen had been a formative influence on Victoria and had supported...

she lay in her bed, or coming into her room in his nightclothes. Her governess, Kat Ashley, thought this scandalous, and reported it to Catherine. Indignant...

brother's home in Vienna where she stayed for a year, before relocating to Russia, where she worked as a governess from 1825 to 1828, firstly in St Petersburg...