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...
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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...
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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...
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Marthe de Roucoulle (category Governesses to the Prussian court)
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...
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Agnes Grey (category Fictional governesses)
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...
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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...
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Jane Eyre (category Works published under a pseudonym)
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...
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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
infancy), Maria Theresa (the last direct Habsburg sovereign), Maria Anna (Governess of the Austrian Netherlands), and Maria Amalia (who also died in infancy)...
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Petticoating (redirect from Male petticoating)
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...
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Madame de Ventadour (category Governesses to the Children of France)
(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...
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Charlotte Brontë (category English governesses)
home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839, she undertook the role of governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth...
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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...
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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...
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Charles IX of France (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
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...
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Frances Howard, Countess of Kildare (category Governesses to the English Royal Household)
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...
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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...
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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...
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is characterised by what Nomis characterises as the "Golden Age of the Governess". No fewer than twenty establishments were documented as having existed...
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and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love. The novel builds on...
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Mary I of England (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
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...
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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...
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children. A governess concentrates on educating children inside their own home, and a kindergarten or schoolteacher does the same, but in a school environment...
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aristocratic in appearance. She was known amongst her siblings as "the governess" for her domineering but also maternal ways. Tatiana was the closest of...
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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...
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Shirley (novel) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
she might take up the role of governess, but her uncle dismisses the idea and assures her that she need not work for a living. Caroline recovers somewhat...
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mother and their governess, Marion Crawford. Lessons concentrated on history, language, literature, and music. Crawford published a biography of Elizabeth...
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Marie Elisabeth of France (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
Philibert, Duke of Savoy. She was raised under the supervision of her governess, Isabelle de Crissé. When Marie Elisabeth was less than two years old...
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Mary Sackville (category Governesses to the English Royal Household)
Countess of Dorset (née Curzon) (c.1586 – 1645) was an English royal governess. Mary was born in Trentham and baptised in December 1586. She was the...
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was originally based on a TV documentary film called Poisonous Women, which was released in 2003. Deadly Women started as a miniseries comprising three...
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Claire Clairmont (category English governesses)
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...
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