| 单词 | governess |
| 例句 | The children were blissfully unaware of the festive fate that lay in store for them, and were delighted at their governess’s return. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Her governess was now urgently signalling her to return to her own table—in effect, to stop bothering the man. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “You look familiar. Blast it all, now I remember. You’re the governess, are you not?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She may have officially been a governess for only a few weeks, but it wounded her professional pride to have her students talked about in such a cavalier manner. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I would much rather have a governess, Father. I would study very hard if I had a governess.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Stepping out with Mabel, I realize it's the kind of place the governess in The Turn of the Screw would find rife with ghostly possibilities. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And so, unlikely as it all seems, that is how Miss Penelope Lumley’s career as a governess began. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Then she too turned to her governess, her eyes sparkling with excitement. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The children seemed perfectly comfortable in the dark, though, and at the smell of the cakes, they gathered close to their new governess without a trace of fear. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Is this your doing, governess?” he murmured in a low voice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He had long made up his mind to Jane Fairfax’s going out as governess, and could talk of it cheerfully, but Mr. Knightley’s going to London had been an unexpected blow. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I meant to become her governess once more, but I soon found this impracticable; my time and cares were now required by another—my husband needed them all. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was a gesture Penelope found endearingly ponylike, and the young governess allowed herself a smile. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Penelope longed to give each one a hug, but she knew that a wise governess always maintains a certain professional reserve. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Anna and Dorus withdrew Vincent and Anna, choosing instead to hire a governess to educate them at home, along with the younger Van Goghs when they were ready. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “No, no, sir! think of other subjects, and speak of other things, and in another strain. Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Sixteen years had Miss Taylor been in Mr. Woodhouse’s family, less as a governess than a friend, very fond of both daughters, but particularly of Emma. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “How kind of you to worry. A governess would be much more expensive. And I haven’t the time to interview governesses. In two days, you shall go to finishing school with Dame Olga’s daughters.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I am a graduate of the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, currently employed as governess here at Ashton Place.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Bringing up the rear was an efficient-looking woman in a limp felt hat—presumably their governess. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The governess was always getting muddled with her astrolabe, and when she got specially muddled she would take it out of the Wart by rapping his knuckles. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, the governess!” he repeated; “deuce take me, if I had not forgotten! The governess!” and again my raiment underwent scrutiny. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “No governess! How was that possible? Five daughters brought up at home without a governess! I never heard of such a thing. Your mother must have been quite a slave to your education.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Colonel Arbuthnot talked of the Punjab, and occasionally asked the girl a few questions about Baghdad where it became clear that she had been in a post as governess. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “I imagine you must be extremely disappointed in your position, Miss Lumley. You were hired to be a governess, but this is a job more fit for a zookeeper, is it not?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Lady Constance, it is Miss Lumley, the governess! I must have your ear for a moment regarding the children. Their current accommodations are quite unacceptable.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Earlier that very morning, she had been a sleepy girl on a noisy train, but now she was a professional governess in an enormous and unimaginably wealthy house. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Or perhaps it was love; every time he had a fit, he was comforted and held by the children’s new, pretty governess. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Day after day, listening to this endless prattling—she would rather be governess to a whole pack of actual wolves than suffer through that. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She stared at the capable-looking governesses who accompanied these children—women from another world, in capes and starchstringed bonnets who sat sideways on the seat to drive the pony. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t mean to pry. But a governess for the children is the available position, is it not?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “She had engaged to go as governess to Mrs. Smallridge’s children—a dear friend of Mrs. Elton’s—a neighbour of Maple Grove; and, by the bye, I wonder how Mrs. Elton bears the disappointment?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “You said I could have a governess. Wouldn’t that be less expensive than sending me away?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Lady Constance decisively, after a pause, “Miss Lumley. You are certainly everything I had hoped for in a governess, and more. May I offer you the position?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z About whether they were there at all, and if they were, whether they were as evil as the governess in The Turn of the Screw thought. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The governess had red hah and some mysterious wound from which she derived a lot of prestige by showing it to all the women of the castle, behind closed doors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They would have preferred to have gone with Robin, and thought that being put under Marian was like being trusted to a governess. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The ghosts told the governess that she would never know love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “I have been acting as governess to two children.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he went on: “But I don’t like the idea of your being a governess—at the beck and call of tyrannical mothers and their tiresome brats.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In London the Darwins stayed with Erasmus, who hired three horse-drawn cabs for Charles, Emma, and all the children and their nurses and governesses to go to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perspective drawing . . . algebraic equations . . . music theory . . .” Now giggling at the impossibility of keeping up, the children fetched books at random and stacked the volumes at their governess’s feet. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I suppose you could be taught by a governess. If I could find someone...” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Her best chance, she had decided, lay in seeking employment as a governess in one of the wealthy families. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Then, who taught you? who attended to you? Without a governess, you must have been neglected.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z "The only thing I like about The Turn of the Screw is the governess's first sentence." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Well! I have never interviewed a possible governess before! I feel somewhat nervous; you must forgive me.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I understand that you are seeking a governess for three children. Perhaps you might tell me their ages and a bit about them.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Certainly, my best. And I was quite right: depend on that: there are a thousand reasons why liaisons between governesses and tutors should never be tolerated a moment in any well-regulated house; firstly—” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Not the fact that Miss Debenham was companion governess in the Armstrong household at the time of the kidnapping of little Daisy Armstrong?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “M-my governess,” said the boy, “used to say that nobody is ever given more to shoulder than he or she can bear.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Eventually all the children slept on the second floor, and a maid, and later a governess, Dorus and Anna putting up walls to divide already small rooms into smaller ones. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes, I had a dragon—a sort of governess to me and secretary to Sonia combined. She was English or rather Scotch—a big, red-haired woman.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “I forgot that English people rather turn up their noses at governesses and don’t treat them as we do,” said Meg, looking after the retreating figure with an annoyed expression. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The sudden memory shows him that his hatred is really directed at a depraved governess who had terrified him with frightening stories and left a flaw in his personality. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “I am their governess. I should not have left them unattended even for a moment.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “My dearest, don’t mention governesses; the word makes me nervous. I have suffered a martyrdom from their incompetency and caprice. I thank Heaven I have now done with them!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t go at all. I am a governess myself.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! you mustn’t think that. The downtrodden governess is quite an exploded myth. I can assure you that it’s the parents who are afraid of being bullied by me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Ms. von Trapp was the reason the governess came to work for the family — she needed a tutor at home because she also had scarlet fever and was too ill to walk to school. Maria von Trapp, ‘Sound of Music’ Daughter, Dies at 99 2014-02-24T04:39:12Z Not just any baby sitter would do: I imagined a modern-day governess. My bad baby-sitter years 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Pip colluded with a governess to coach her secretly for the entrance examination for Penzance county girls' grammar school. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z She was a bright child who could drive a car at the age of nine, taught by her mother, and through the presence of an English governess learned to speak English before she could Spanish. William Walton obituary 2010-03-24T18:21:00Z The three governesses of the title have been employed at a country estate, ostensibly to care for the family’s four sons. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Social snobbery; razor-sharp aphorisms; and competition over men, names and cucumber sandwiches drive the action until the fateful confession of a former governess delivers an orderly conclusion. Review: Wilde’s Wacky ‘Earnest,’ Now With Arias 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Carrie Underwood played the singing governess in the live NBC performance of “The Sound of Music” on Thursday and seemed to be sleepwalking. Television Review: Carrie Underwood Stars in NBC’s Live ‘Sound of Music’ 2013-12-06T17:45:01Z Onscreen text explains that, after the horrific death of her two children and their governess in an automobile accident in 1913, Duncan choreographed a solo dance of loss titled “The Mother.” ‘Isadora’s Children’ Review: Variations on Sorrow 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “Whole evenings go by in this way: three yellow governesses pressed up against the gates, and all these men milling around in the gray twilight.” ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z But Joseph ghosts, and Becky is off to Hampshire to work as a governess. Amazon’s New “Vanity Fair” Turns Becky Sharp Into an Endearing, Plucky Go-Getter 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Then Joan Fontaine, cast as the meek governess, recites the book's first paragraphs, as if dictating a lesson in her schoolroom. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z It told the story of a young governess who takes a job in a broken-down mansion inhabited by three brothers, each of whom pursues her. Carlos Saura, a Leading and Enduring Spanish Director, Dies at 91 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Living in a boardinghouse, working part time as a governess, earning a dollar a column for her “‘rubbish,’ as she called it, Jo felt herself a woman of means, and spun her little romances diligently.” ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z There’s a piece of framed embroidery by Charlotte Brontë, displayed with a Brontë letter describing her efforts to find work as a governess. The Overlooked History of Women at Work 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z It is Bly's new governess who is the worm in the bud in this cosy domestic scene, not the ghosts. The Turn of the Screw ? review 2011-08-12T17:01:45Z The opera begins later in the tale, when Jane has become a governess at the estate of the secretive, volatile but dashing Edward Rochester, and we see the kindling of their romantic feelings. Review: When Anaïs Met Circe, and Other Operatic Adventures 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Only posts for shop assistants or governesses were on offer. Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z James set his story in a 19th-century English country estate, where a young governess is sent to care for a brother and sister, Miles and Flora, whose only living relative can't be bothered with them. Britten ghost story at City Opera 2013-02-25T15:53:18Z After her father married the governess in 1927, they had three children together. Maria von Trapp, ‘Sound of Music’ Daughter, Dies at 99 2014-02-24T04:39:12Z Again, an unnamed narrator, another governess, a different manuscript that claims to tell the story of mysterious country house, a widower and his children and two ghosts of former servants of the house. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z ‘THE UNICORN,’ in which a young governess comes to live with a wealthy woman who is being held prisoner in a remote seaside house by the employees of her absent husband. In Praise of Iris Murdoch 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Andrews, 81, was a child actor, starting on the West End stage, and already a Broadway star by the time she appeared as the singing governess in the Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musical. Why I love… Julie Andrews 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z The three sisters attended the Ethical Culture School and spoke French with their governess. Shirley Clarke and Elaine Dundy: The Escape Artists 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z Playful banter, secret missives, a nefarious governess, stolen jewels and a charming footman enliven the whole, but this is no mere romp. A Jane Austen-esque novel for teens and other best books for young readers 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z This revival of the musical about a postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes a governess also is back. Broadway comes to the Southland in touring shows for 'Cabaret,' 'Chicago,' 'Kinky Boots' and more 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z And her governess, Maria, explains that you simply add words, “one word for every note.” Estonian choir brings artistry to unfamiliar music 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z In an enchanting nursery, dolls lumbered into life and a witch emerged from the wardrobe like a black-gowned governess. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z Uninterested in his houseful of children, she loses him to the governess, played memorably by Julie Andrews. Eleanor Parker, 91, Oscar-Nominated Actress, Dies 2013-12-10T02:07:52Z The book, when you analyse it, is all about Emma's search for a sister-figure to replace her real sister and her governess, both lost to her through marriage. Literature's great sister acts 2010-06-03T15:36:00Z For this delightful novel about the governess from hell, maybe only the word “wicked” will do. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z A gaggle of siblings in a big country house with absent parents, plus a governess, cook and nurse, is usually the recipe for a great romp. Tin Toys Trilogy by Ursula Holden – review 2013-01-19T19:00:08Z If only the girls would stop driving off their governesses! In These Romance Novels, the Characters Are Sexy, Hot and Toting a Ton of Emotional Baggage 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z An 18th century British woman takes a job as governess for the children of the king of Siam in this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic. Broadway in L.A.: Which touring musicals are coming to Southern California? 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z He will trump the story with his own, a narrative written by his sister's governess many years before, which he reads aloud to the company "round the hearth". The Woman in Black by Susan Hill 2012-02-10T22:55:08Z I was working in a small German town as a live-out governess to a rich family. I’m a smut-smith, not a nympho: Stop thinking I’m sex-crazed because I write hot sex scenes 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z My great-grandparents’ household was like an ethnic joke: a German cook, an Irish parlormaid, a French governess, and a local butler. Reading Myself Aloud 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Crawford was governess to Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, the daughters of the Duke and Duchess of York. Review | Wendy Holden’s ‘The Royal Governess’ is spirited entertainment that revisits Queen Elizabeth II’s childhood 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The artist said one of her main inspirations was her childhood in France, where she was close to her affectionate mother but was also unsettled by her father's marital infidelities including with her governess. Sculptor Louise Bourgeois dies aged 98: report 2010-06-01T14:56:00Z When a young Scottish woman named Sarah Lawrence arrived at his Irish manor as the new governess, she was immediately adored by her new charges — and soon by Sir Thomas as well. The early years of the real Lawrence of Arabia 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z What goes missing is the pervasive subtlety of James's story, which the Britten opera, with its musical hints that the governess and Quint are two sides of the same person, singularly captures. The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-01-25T17:40:44Z OperaUpClose's current production plumps squarely for the hysterical governess interpretation, with the unfortunate woman revealed in a prologue as a patient in a mental hospital. The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z I’m thinking especially of the ribbed gray knit shorts, cardigans and leggings that were interspersed with shimmery floral cocoon coats and white governess poplin shirts speckled with prima ballerina tutu gems. Gender, Lockdown and Really Good Outerwear 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z It's a potboiler about a French governess who was falsely accused of murder and thrown in a dungeon. Dig into those archives! The story of a lost code breaking woman of World War II 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z When the book opens, we see the governesses before properly meeting them. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z For “Turn of the Screw” to work, the company has to create a real sense of creepiness as the governess is dragged into a nightmare where she can’t trust herself or anyone else. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z No one would have to become a governess. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z But Robinson’s story must hew to Dawson’s, so the climax and denouement belong to the downstairs circus of the governess, Hélène, and her paramour, Dr. McDow, who stain the manse with sordidness and frivolity. Her Great-Grandfather Fought for the South but Went On to Preach Equality 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Anne is a governess who made a mistake at age 16. Local Books: Jimi Hendrix's brother remembers; Olympic Peninsula basketry 2012-05-25T22:14:12Z Set in 1910 in the rainforest city of Manaus in Brazil, it features a classic adventure story plot with Maia, an orphaned girl, a firm but fair governess, cruel relatives and a "hidden identity" device. Eva Ibbotson: Ogres, aunts and happy endings 2010-10-06T11:57:00Z The Medici were not a dynasty of royal blood, but she nonetheless became queen of France, served as regent for her husband and was governess and advisor to her sons. Who was Catherine de’ Medici? "The Serpent Queen" gives us a clever, powerful and dangerous woman 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z Oblonsky, Anna's brother, a man who when he dreams of women dreams of decanters, is having an affair with a French governess. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Born into privilege on Philadelphia’s Main Line, educated mostly by French governesses, she grew up in a musical home where the guests included Sergei Rachmaninoff, Leopold Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy. Rosamond Bernier, Art Insider Who Turned Lectures Into Theater, Dies at 100 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z The film sets you up to identify with the governess, but then you realise that she may in fact be going insane. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Is it a gothic romance in which the governess heroine fights supernatural forces of evil, or is it a character study of an insane, repressed woman? The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z In James's novel, the ghostly figures whose sexual histories have possibly involved the children may be a projection of the governess's own disturbed erotic fantasies. The Turn of the Screw - in links 2011-08-08T14:46:00Z “Despair,” Christle claims, “is a kind of decomposition. When we want someone to stop crying and we are a stern governess with one recalcitrant pupil we instruct them, Compose yourself.” “The Crying Book” Reveals How Tears Can Help Us, and How They Can’t 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Critical debate over the governess’ sanity has been around since the story was originally serialized in Colliers magazine. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Her mother, Kjellfrid, is from Norway, but she also spent time in England, working in Surrey as a governess and cook. Renée Zellweger: there is so much more to her than Bridget Jones | Observer profile 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z This is a realm of absurd stock characters and hoary narrative devices: cruel governesses, kindhearted orphans, counterfeit wills, hidden passageways, long-lost relations, doppelgängers, clues hidden in paintings, castaways, coincidences, sudden returns from the dead. The Practical Magic of Joan Aiken, the Greatest Children’s Writer You’ve Likely Never Read 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Roger's Fosca is not some ugly duckling but a lonely, passionate woman who resembles a slender Victorian governess rather than the madwoman in the attic: more Jane Eyre than Mrs Rochester. Review 2010-09-22T10:00:00Z Then the designers played with essentially three elements — cabaret sequins; maroon and cream striped governess shirting; and camo — mixing and matching them in the tropes of historical grandeur and red-light districts. Seeing the Oscar Challenge to Fashion Week and Raising It One 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Despite her academic talents, Charlotte was ill-suited to work as a teacher or governess. Unrequited love fuels the 'Fiery Heart' biography of Charlotte Brontë 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The child's puppet dolls are miniatures of herself and Miss Jessel, dangled menacingly over the canopy of the big four-poster bed where the virginal new governess endures her fevered nightmares. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z The world of work beckoned, and for single women of their class, that meant one of two professions, teacher or governess, neither of which they were suited to by talent or temperament. She Was No Bird: ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript on First Trip to America 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The shifts in perception here are real, as the set reflects the alternating clarity and confusion in the governess’ mind. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Sure, there are a couple of unnerving ghosts hanging around the story and a seemingly haunted, possibly possessed, pair of siblings presenting their governess with unique problems. Meet the 13- and 14-year-old boys starring in Seattle Opera’s ‘Turn of the Screw’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z The 1965 film was based on the real story of how the baron fell in love with the children’s governess, also named Maria, and the family toured together as a choir. Maria von Trapp, ‘Sound of Music’ Daughter, Dies at 99 2014-02-24T04:39:12Z In the past, literary debate about it has focused on what the author meant us to make of the governess. Feast; In the Beginning Was the End; The Turn of the Screw – review 2013-02-10T00:05:37Z The change in question — the sudden dismissal of Gina’s beloved governess — is just one of many upheavals soon to launch a cosseted teenager into an abrupt adulthood. In Magda Szabo’s Magical Novel, a Statue Protects Students From the Nazis 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z She left soon afterwards and, from then on, was educated at home by the same governess who had taught her mother. Obituary: Elizabeth Jane Howard 2014-01-02T19:26:16Z In the spirit of a dare, Charlotte wrote “Jane Eyre,” in which a plain, orphaned governess wins the heart of a rogue addicted to beautiful women. Review: ‘Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart’ 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Writing Stiffs Charlotte Bronte somehow survived on $1,838 a year, adjusted for inflation, working as a Yorkshire governess. Alex Chilton, Rock Musician, Dies 2010-03-18T18:10:00Z For all their antics, the governesses are not “unsavory,” according to the narrator. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Mark Hutchinson’s splendid and sensitive translation sets the mood; he has a talent for the off-kilter adjective that first startles us and later explains so much: a governess’s “valiant hands,” a “scantily lit” salon. ‘The Governesses’ Offers Subtle Lessons in Shame, Constraint and Lust 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z In becoming a governess, Charlotte's taken down a peg or two. "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z The Sound of Music All-new production of the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein musical about a would-be nun who becomes the governess for a large family in pre-WWII Austria. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 27-Oct. 4: 'Wicked Lit' and more 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Part Two Jo, as many a brokenhearted reader learned, goes to New York City to work as a governess. ‘Jo Was Everything I Wanted to Be’: 5 Writers on ‘Little Women’ 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z And I think it doesn't occur to him that this woman who's reduced to being a governess, why would she say no? "Sanditon" boss on that heartbreaking finale, a curious "Bridgerton" connection to and Season 3 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Until, that is, the entreaty of a young governess piques his attention… I can't wait to see what they do with it. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Edginton and INJ Culbard | Book review 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z On opening night, soprano Elizabeth Caballero played the new governess with a sense of youthful determination. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z At the time, Ms. Andrews’s public image was of the endlessly cheerful governess she had played in “The Sound of Music.” Blake Edwards, Prolific Comedy Director, Dies at 88 2010-12-16T20:39:02Z The solid cast features Sherri L. Edelen — Mama Rose in last season’s “Gypsy” at Signature — as the housekeeper Mrs. Grose, and her haunting number about the previous governess has an especially flickering beauty. Adapting to the times: Mexican lovers, Irish terrorists and James’s ghosts 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z “Would I be a governess? Because I’m British, and that’s like an old nanny.” Lisa Vanderpump of ‘Real Housewives’ Sips Her Tea. And Spills Some, Too. 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z An 18th century British woman takes a job as governess for the children of the king of Siam in this Rodgers & Hammerstein favorite. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Sinclair soon realizes that Bertie is the only person those children are willing to heed, and he hires her as a governess of sorts, sealing their unconventional partnership. The best romance for October by Maggie Shayne, Cara Connelly and Jennifer Ashley Anger explodes from her early journals and anger, she says, is the predominant emotion of “Jane Eyre”, the penniless orphan who is hired as governess to the ward of the mysterious Mr Rochester. Woman of substance 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In Benjamin Britten’s opera — with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 Henry James novella — an absentee guardian hires a governess to care for his orphaned young nephew, Miles, and niece, Flora. Seattle Opera’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’ is tense, spooky — and not for everyone 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Bands of pearls festoon their hair, in contrast to the gray-haired demeanor of their governess, a gentle figure peeking in from the right side. Old Mistresses Turn Tables on Old Masters 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The film also opens in a sanitarium, where the governess is being interviewed by a psychiatrist, seeding doubts into what we’re about to witness at Bly Manor. ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ Brings Back the Ghosts of Henry James 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The kids originally appeared in Wilson’s debut novel, “The Family Fang,” in which Annie Fang gets a part in a movie where she’s a governess to children who burst into flames. Don’t Hate Kevin Wilson, but He Wrote His Best Seller in 10 Days 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z With long gowns speckled with crystal, sashes draped into a governess bustle at the back. Marc Jacobs and the Ghosts of Fashion Past and Future 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z During this suspenseful voyage, a middle-aged British spy posing as Miss Froy, an eccentric governess, and carrying the film's MacGuffin, is abducted by foreign agents, and her disappearance is covered up. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z Williams drove back to their home and announced to his children’s governess, Miss Ragland, that Audrey possessed “a cold, cold heart.” We Can’t Quit You, Hank Williams 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z What is a governess doing in a parlor? Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Xochi gets a job as Pallas’s “governess,” and moves in with the family. First Love and Other Investigations 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Meg and Jo, 16 and 15 years old when the story begins, already are working—Meg as a governess and Jo as a companion to Aunt March, the family’s well-off relative. Timeless Preoccupations and Old-School Virtues 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Like the governesses in those stories, Linda is both a part of the family but separate from it. Emily Fridlund's debut novel 'History of Wolves' is chilling, in a good way 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Raised in a poor family in London’s East End, she escaped by becoming a lady’s companion to a wealthy widow and, later, a governess. A Naked Statue for a Feminist Hero? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Born in France in 1910, he was abandoned by his mother, an unmarried woman who referred to herself as a governess. Interpreting ‘The Maids’ Through a Shifting Societal Lens 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Follow along as Maria serves as governess for the seven children of the stern Captain, bringing music to their lives in the form of timeless songs like “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Do Re Mi” and “Edelweiss.” Where to see outdoor theater and performances this summer 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z She worked as a governess in Paris and later converted to Catholicism and was baptized at the age of 26. Sister André, World’s Oldest Known Person, Dies at 118 in France 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Children are taught by what are still called governesses, and grunt work is shared — workers and owners alike wash their own dishes. Where Cowboys Fly and Cattle Set Sail: An Epic Food Journey 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Sharp, at age 31, became the governess at Godmersham Park, the home of Austen’s brother, in Kent. Review | Jane Austen-inspired books keep coming. Some work better than others. 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The two princesses were educated at home in a schoolroom on the third floor by their governess Marion Crawford. Queen Elizabeth: The London homes that made a monarch 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Among those who taught her was her father, along with a senior teacher at Eton College, several French and Belgian governesses who taught her French, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who taught her religion. 10 things to know about Queen Elizabeth II’s life 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z She never attended school or classes and was brought up and educated at home by nannies, governesses and private tutors. Queen Elizabeth II Dies at 96; Was World’s Longest-Reigning Monarch 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z When his younger brother, the Duke of York, succeeded him as George VI, Elizabeth’s governess told the girl to get ready to move to Buckingham Palace. Queen Elizabeth has died. She reigned longer than any British monarch since her great-great-grandmother 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z For Americans who associate British TV with crime-solving vicars and emotionally repressed governesses, the fantastically tacky contestants of “Love Island” can be a shock to the system. The way-too-complete guide to 'Love Island' 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Kéké worked as a hotel chambermaid for more than 15 years and eventually climbed the ladder to next job grade, becoming a governess who managed teams of cleaners. Former hotel housekeeper aims to give French workers a voice 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z But the future queen as a girl “never cared a fig” about clothes, according to her former governess, Marion Crawford. A look at Queen Elizabeth II’s style through the decades 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Experts from the University of Leeds and a specialist spectroscopy company were also involved, and they found she had carnelians and agates which she collected in Scarborough, where she worked as a governess. Author Anne Bronte a skilled geologist, research shows 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z By 1853 she was head of a hospital in London, England, for governesses, women who couldn’t afford private care but would not consider going to a public facility. Florence Nightingale’s tireless work brought respect to nursing 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z ‘The Sound of Music’ A spunky young woman in pre-WWII Austria becomes governess for a former naval officer’s large brood in a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved Tony-winning musical. Six picks for your L.A. weekend: Los Angeles Ballet, Cirque de la Symphonie and more 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The sultan is always running out of money, thanks to his impractical schemes, and Rachel’s governess, Daya, wants her young charge to convert to Christianity. At Theater J, a new version of a 1779 play shows multiculturalism is a lot older than we think 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z At the age of 23, he married his sisters' governess, Emily Richardson, but soon after she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer. Louis Wain: The artist who changed how we think about cats 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z A governess taught the princesses on the grounds. Perspective | The secret to keeping the Norwegian royals safe in World War II? The U.S. Secret Service. 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z His mother was a governess who emigrated from Germany and his father a cabdriver from New York. William Friend, an influential chemical engineer, dies of complications from covid-19 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z De Zwart said her mother told her stories about training at an academy to become a governess and traveling to Amsterdam because there was no work in Urk. Column: How a picture in a newspaper unlocked childhood mysteries for two Holocaust survivors 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z A turning point came when she began working as a governess for Presley and Anna Bisland, a wealthy couple who lived in nearby Bronxville, New York, and who saw promise in the boy. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z For nearly a year, she’s been researching the staff that worked for the Heurich family, all those maids, cooks, chauffeurs, governesses and gardeners. Perspective | The pandemic isn’t stopping D.C.’s annual history conference 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z In time, the governess begins to see people who may not really be there, and she also suspects that something is wrong with the children. The Haunting of Bly Manor proves that every love story is a ghost story 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z A young Londoner disguises herself to become governess of the son of the barrister she loves. Movies on TV this week: 'Tootsie' on Showtime; 'Halloween' on AMC 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z The Galighers had a staff of six servants: maids, a cook, a governess and a man who took care of the yard and stable. A look at the story of Cairo, Illinois’ Magnolia Manor 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z Juci, as Mrs. Nierenberg was called, grew up in luxury, in a home that had a tennis court, multiple gardens and a staff that included a butler, maids, a cook, a chauffeur and a governess. Martha Nierenberg, Holocaust survivor who sought to reclaim looted family art collection, dies at 96 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z A middle-aged British governess gets a taste of the glamorous life when she takes a job as the caretaker of an American celebrity. Movies on TV this week, June 7: Mary Poppins; Finding Nemo 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The original story is told in flashback by an unnamed narrator who spins a tale of a governess hired to take care of a wealthy man’s niece and nephew in the stately Bly Manor. The Haunting of Bly Manor proves that every love story is a ghost story 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z We meet her as she’s just completed a successful match, for her governess. Review: Austen’s ‘Emma,’ humanized but not modernized 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z The Sound of Music Julie Andrews stars in this beloved 1965 musical about a novitiate who leaves the convent to become governess to an Austrian widower’s large brood. Classic movies in L.A. this week: 'Margaret,' 'Dr. Strangelove' and more 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Their busy careers left Carrie and her brother to be raised by a grandmother and a governess, home at times their mother’s hotel rooms. Review: Carrie Fisher bio as sharp, endearing as its subject 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z Alcott worked to support her family most of her life, as a writer but also as a teacher, a seamstress, a governess, a companion and, during one particularly difficult time, a house servant. Column: 'Little Women' is great but where is the Louisa May Alcott biopic? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The girls work as governesses and lady’s companions; they mend old clothes to make them last; they make their own entertainment: plays, newspapers, books, music. Sister act: how Little Women has come of age on the big screen 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z A girl with a stern governess goes to Washington to buy back her dog from the secretary of war. Movies on TV this week: 'Giant' on TCM 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z While filming the rowboat scene on the lake, she played the role of governess — and lifeguard. Julie Andrews talks ‘Mary Poppins,’ 'The Sound of Music' and her favorite Hollywood stories 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z A ballerina risks her life; a governess is wooed by her charge; an aerialist finds a new partner. Movies on TV this week: 'Silence of the Lambs' 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Like governesses and housekeepers, nannies are mother substitutes. Mary Poppins, Madame Doubtfire and a murderer: the best books about nannies 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z In a 19th-century scandal, a French duke and his children’s governess become suspects in the death of his wife. Movies on TV this week: 'GoodFellas' on AMC and more 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Sing-a-long Sound of Music Celebration of the beloved 1965 Julie Andrews film based on the Broadway musical about a young woman who leaves the convent to become governess to an Austrian widower’s children. Theater in L.A. this week: Bill Irwin's 'On Beckett,' Ethan Coen's 'A Play Is a Poem' and more 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Our cook, Boženka, ran the household, and Bobby and I each had a governess. My Terezín Diary 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s about this governess who takes care of this family on this giant estate and she kind of starts to go crazy. After 'It Chapter Two' and 'Stranger Things,' Finn Wolfhard is an accidental horror star 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z A governess has care of a young boy and girl, two orphans, who she comes to believe can see the ghosts of a man and woman maliciously haunting the house. Top 10 ghost stories 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z A young Englishwoman tries to prove that an elderly governess was actually on a train. Movies on TV this week Aug. 25: 'Beauty and the Beast' (1991) and more 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z She was sent to Philadelphia to gain an education; her governess gave her a revulsion towards slavery and commitment to abolition. Lincoln's spies: Elizabeth Van Lew, southern sexism and the winning of a secret war 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z "There, I learnt to speak Arabic and my delight was to escape my governess and visit the mosques with my Algerian friends, and unconsciously I was a little Muslim at heart," she wrote. The British Victorians who became Muslims 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z In the movie, the king, played by Brynner, was portrayed as a moody, vain, ignorant and misogynistic monarch who softened up thanks to the influence of the children’s plucky English governess. The real 'King and I' - the story of new Thai king's famous ancestor 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Fortunately for the impatient authoress, she was repeatedly sent as a child to the Continent, where governesses taught her French, German, and Italian. Dearest Edith 1929-02-23T05:00:00Z But it’s not without its genteel moments – as when Ferlinghetti describes his early years living with his aunt, who at one point was hired as the governess of a wealthy east coast family. City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 'The US isn't ready for a revolution' 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z The Sound of Music A young woman becomes the governess for a widower’s children in pre-WWII Austria in this classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical. SoCal theater listings, Jan. 27-Feb. 3: August Wilson’s ‘Two Trains Running,’ the Wooster Group at REDCAT and more 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z She grew up in a home outfitted with 12 rooms, two maids and one French governess, with a mother who worked as a psychologist and a father who was a prominent neurologist. Evelyn Y. Davis, activist shareholder and ‘queen of the corporate jungle,’ dies at 89 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z She was working as a governess to support her mother and her younger sisters in Connecticut when she heard of the women protesting in Washington, McDonald said. Perspective | Women who don’t vote? Explain yourselves to Grandma Flanagan. 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z She was 28 and had been hired as a governess to the aristocratic family of Lord Kingsborough. This Dublin Block Tells the Story of the City 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z So she takes a job as governess to two children of one of her mother’s friends, who runs a boarding house in New York City. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Steve, my grandfather, spent his childhood, during the Depression, in a big house with a governess, a butler, and a chef. Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z The Chalk Garden Revival of Enid Bagnold’s comedy about a British dowager who hires a mysterious woman as a gardener and governess. The week ahead in SoCal theater: 'The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui' and more 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z What was a fortress on a swamp for their parents was a domesticated home with reading and governesses for them. The legacy of the Russian revolution can still be felt today 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z A scrapbook of mementoes of Queen Victoria’s childhood collected by her German governess, including lockets of her hair and fabric from her wedding dress, is to be auctioned in Berlin. Scrapbook of Queen Victoria’s childhood to be auctioned in Berlin 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z And Prince Charles' first teacher - before going to school aged eight - was a governess who taught him in a room at Buckingham Palace that contained a blackboard and a desk. Prince George set for first day of school - BBC News 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z She had an old-fashioned and privileged English country childhood: “This is going to sound sadly Jane Eyre-ish but to begin with I was taught at home by a governess,” she says. Lucy Hughes-Hallett: ‘Here I am, late in life. I wanted to write a novel all that time’ 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z Having grown up under the care of a governess and a chauffeur, I had never seen my parents do manual labour. My two messed-up countries: an immigrant’s dilemma 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Someone told me that the man who introduced the governess Anna Leonowens to the king of Siam was buried in a Bukit Brown tomb, but the casual visitor will be hard-pressed to find it. How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Lehzen, who was born in Hanover, became governess to the young Victoria at Kensington Palace when she was five years old. Scrapbook of Queen Victoria’s childhood to be auctioned in Berlin 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z Their father, Prince Charles, was initially educated at home by a governess, but later attended the Cheam Preparatory School, in Berkshire. Prince George set for first day of school - BBC News 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z “She lived almost 20 years without her mother. Her father hardly knew her. She was brought up by nannies and governesses, left to her own devices.” Is France finally ready to choose Marine Le Pen as president? 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z Or adorable palace children greeting their new governess. Like its monarch, ‘The King and I’ steps into a new world 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Like Agnes Grey, Jane Eyre was also about a plain heroine, who was also a governess, and who also spoke directly to the reader. Anne Brontë: the sister who got there first 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z They ran pre-publication teaser ads in the Times and wrote what Bourne called “demented governess” letters—letters expressing crazed enthusiasm for the forthcoming book—to well-known critics and writers. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Her father worked as an engineer in the oil refinery business, and her mother was a governess. After a six-year absence, Renee Zellweger is back to take on 'Bridget Jones's Baby' and a world obsessed with how she looks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z I just drop her with the governess at the station. Six names for the end : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z A governess educated the girls at home, but Susy and Clara each spent their freshman year at Hartford Public High School. Mark Twain House Puts Spotlight on 3 Lesser-Known Masterworks: His Daughters 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Agnes turns to one of the only other jobs open to middle-class women: she decides to become a governess. Anne Brontë: the sister who got there first 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z When my mother was a 17-year-old in London, studying to be a Montessori teacher, the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret occasionally popped into her classroom with their governess. How to Party With the British Royals 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Queen Victoria famously sacked her daughters’ governess after discovering one of the princesses reading a novel. Charles Dickens and the women who made him 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Why a governess on an estate with no children? ‘The Moors’ at Yale Rep: Flights of Fancy and Tales of Deceit 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z Darrow brought in psychiatrists and other experts to show that the pair, both of whom were raised by governesses, had been stunted by their privilege. The 'Affluenza' Defense Is Older Than You Think 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Anne wanted her novel to speak to some of the 25,000 women working as governesses in the 1840s and to their employers too. Anne Brontë: the sister who got there first 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Master for mistress; sir for madam; governor for governess; bachelor for spinster; courtier for courtesan – whereas the male list speaks of power and high status, the female list has a very different set of connotations. Eight words that reveal the sexism at the heart of the English language | David Shariatmadari 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Playing a potentially formative role, Mayer suggests, was a governess hired for the eldest Koch sons, Charles and Frederick, who have since gone separate ways. The Koch brothers’ impact on the American political system 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z The book also reveals that Fred Koch was such an admirer of Nazism, he “hired a fervent Nazi as a governess for his eldest boys,” the Washington Post reports. Koch brothers’ father did business with the Nazis, book claims — just like Prescott Bush, Henry Ford & some U.S. corporations 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z She recalled going to Disneyland with her grandfather, her governess and others on what she thought was a preview day. 'Hollywood Home Movies: Disneyland' is an E-ticket to the park's past 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Fassbender’s lord of the cursed manor is worthy of his governess’s love, even though he’s no match for the one played by Timothy Dalton when it comes to despair. ‘Steve Jobs’ Review: Good Apple, Slightly Mushy Core 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The effect was a bit of a mix of the Victorian governess and '70s flower child. Burberry, Erdem, Christopher Kane dazzle with shows at London Fashion Week 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Her home was destroyed, her twin brother and the governess killed. EXCHANGE: Holocaust survivor speaks about faith, strength 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z In 1891, a young woman named Maria Sklodowska left her native Poland and moved to Paris with money carefully saved from her job as a governess. How To Do Great Things, Starting Right Now 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z It contained another typical liberal conceit, in addition to anti-male sexism: Our federal government is maternal governess to the planet, and its inhabitants are all babies except for unelected experts. A sketchy view of energy 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z “The Sound Of Music” is a Tony-Award winning musical about a spirited nun who leaves a convent to become governess to seven children against the backdrop of the Nazi takeover of Austria. Auburn High presents Sound of Music in musicals 50th year 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Renaud was first taken with Russia as a child when his great-grandfather's sister told him about the country where she had served as a governess to a sister of the last tsar, Nicholas II. Swiss winemaker toasts Russian crisis with glass half full 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Luckily, like gardeners and governesses, intellectuals could be hired. FDR: A Monumental Man 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z His French governess who “does borders” at the felt table turns out to have had a Prussian father, a “shameful secret” she kept “to the end.” James Merrill’s Supernatural Epic 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z When I was about 12, my grandmother went to work for rich people as a live-in governess. Ars Botanica 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Goodall was sad to leave her cabinmates and the other friends she made on the journey: an engineer, a governess, a man volunteering at a leper colony. Jane Goodall Is Still Wild at Heart 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z He is the youngest son of Georg and Maria - the decorated naval commander and singing nun turned governess of the film. The truth about the Sound of Music family 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Later Maud was sent to be educated by a governess in France. Ireland's heroine who had sex in her baby's tomb 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Boeing and his cousin Jane were sent with a governess to live in Honolulu, Hawaii, where they stayed for two years. Bill Boeing Jr., son of jetmaker’s founder, dies at 92 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Do the supernatural duo have some unknowable connection to the children – or is it all in the hysterical governess’s mind? The 10 best ghosts 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z As such, a succession of dotty governesses attempted to educate the girls. The six sisters that captured the maelstrom 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z She had been educated in Philadelphia “under the care of an abolitionist governess” who seems to have been the most influential person in her life. Review: ‘Liar Temptress Soldier Spy,’ Civil War’s female spies, by Karen Abbott Alas, poor Miss Nelson had been a governess in Spain. The tale of the parrot that started a fight 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z In the 1900s, a young Lady Violet Bonham-Carter asked her governess how she would spend her life. A trio of champion women? Steady on, old girl… 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z Encouraged by a fashion for things English under the restored French monarchy and by growing unemployment at home, thousands of workers - bricklayers, ostlers, servant-girls and governesses - were trying their luck across the channel. The face of British poverty in France 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z "The young Princess Victoria's governess Baroness Lehzen probably made the outlines, but the colours and designs are likely to be Victoria's own," says Ms Porter. Royal Archive documents revealed 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z On church governess, church finances, and simple living, he acts. The Lede: Pope’s Request for Abuse Victims to Forgive Church Draws Calls for Action 2014-04-11T18:36:53Z Or get him a governess instead of a classroom. It Doesn’t Matter If ADHD Doesn’t Exist, My Son Still Needs Drugs 2014-03-18T11:33:15Z Unmarried, she became a governess and then a nurse before being invited to organise modern training for nurses in Belgium. Innocent blood? - WW1 martyr factor 2014-02-24T06:26:55Z They are a long way from the grooms and governesses of Lord Granville's time. The face of British poverty in France 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Writing in a , von Trapp described how it was her ill health as a child that led her father to employ a governess to teach her and her siblings. Last of Trapp Family Singers dies 2014-02-23T02:43:40Z First, it should be noted that Keynes – whose mother Florence is the first woman to become Mayor of Cambridge - was an aristocrat; brought up with servants and a governess. Economic history: A Keynes for all seasons 2013-11-26T13:30:00Z Charles I replaced his eldest son's first governess, the Countess of Roxburgh, when the Protestant public objected to a Roman Catholic raising the future Charles II. Revolution in the royal nursery 2013-07-08T03:10:12Z He left too little money to pay the £20 a term fees and Emily became a governess to fund her continuing studies, eventually completing her degree in 1908. Votes for women's Derby Day 'martyr' 2013-05-31T23:17:34Z New laws in Brazil have placed maids, nannies, governesses, gardeners, and drivers on equal footing with wage earners in the general workforce; controversial legislation that has caused tumult both upstairs and down. Maids and Masters 2013-04-22T08:45:00Z Ms Dorfer said it was because of Maria's ill heath that her father decided to hire a governess. Last of Trapp Family Singers dies 2014-02-23T02:43:40Z When her governess, to whom she was devoted, died of cancer, she chose to become a doctor. Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini 2012-12-30T17:45:00.203Z By Queen Victoria's reign, royal nursemaids and governesses were expected to exercise complete authority in the nursery and devote themselves entirely to their charges with very little time for themselves. Revolution in the royal nursery 2013-07-08T03:10:12Z The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a governess who arrives at a remote estate to care for a nephew and niece after the death of their parents. Hammer horror heads for the stage 2012-11-23T13:36:01Z The law, modestly enough, puts maids, nannies, governesses, gardeners, and drivers on equal footing with wage earners in the general workforce. Maids and Masters 2013-04-22T08:45:00Z This includes domestic personnel "such as maids, cooks, waiters, valets, butlers, laundresses, gardeners, gatekeepers, stable-lads, chauffeurs, caretakers, governesses, babysitters, tutors, secretaries", to name just a few. A life below stairs 2012-09-21T23:57:36Z Indeed, the overprivileged and overindulged child was a stock character in 19th-century novels: As veteran governesses who presumably knew the territory, the Brontë sisters wrote powerful portraits of spoiled older children. Well: How Spoiled Are Our Children? No Simple Answer 2012-08-13T20:01:03Z In fact, her “secret garden,” according to this account, was richly cultivated by her governess. Bookshelf: Books on Floyd Patterson and Edith Wharton 2012-07-28T05:26:08Z For all that they were commanded to do of their schoolmistresses and governesses was nothing else than the doctrine of the gospel and matters appertaining unto honest and civil manners; whom they most willingly obeyed. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z The maids were trim and tolerant; the gardener was never grumpy; Hercules’s governess disapproved of holiday tasks; the dogs wagged their tails at the least sound. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z When Mrs. Thompson regretfully decided that it would be advisable to dismiss the expensive governesses and send the home pupil to an expensive school, Enid placidly and immediately agreed. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z I pass on to the time when he was a growing boy, with two governesses, and several tutors, and a groom, and such other attendants as every boy has to have. A Captain of Industry Being the Story of a Civilized Man 2012-04-25T02:01:06.607Z The neophytes seeking initiation into this or that special branch of learning will be found to be composed principally of what we call “better class” people, with a sprinkling of pupil teachers and sucking governesses. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z Then, two years since, in this very month of June, Mrs. Garth and the girl drove into Nuttonby in their governess car, and went off by train, sending the trap back by a hired man. The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z Sylvia stared curiously at the two little girls who obeyed their governess so promptly and ate their cakes so mincingly. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Her governess used to look defiance, but that made not the least impression on Miss Beauclerc. Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-06T02:00:29.933Z My lord's brothers and Mistress Bess, with her governess, were likewise carried there. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Lady Mabel was out at a calisthenic class with her children and the governess. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z "But," said she, entreatingly, "you will consent, won't you, dear, to let her take a governess's place, for a time at least, only till Caroline is married?" Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-04T02:00:58.490Z The English family looked very much shocked, but the governess came to their rescue by asking in a thin throaty voice for the “attition,” and presently they all walked out of the garden. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z She had been quite removed from her honourable station, as governess of the family, and had been treated as a very unworthy menial by her ignorant aunt. The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl 2012-04-03T02:00:27.997Z Her sisters, pretty prattlers then, four and six years of age, were led into the house by their governess. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z She was weeping again, more violently than before; Mrs. Despard comforted her—there is no one who comforts so well—and the governess poured out her heart. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Every discomfort that she could throw in her way—every allusion before strangers to her destination, as a governess, were eagerly used for her annoyance. Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-04T02:00:58.490Z Why do all English authors draw all Frenchwomen as cocottes and all French authors draw all English women as governesses? The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Her governess, to whom she entrusted her grief, espoused her cause, and favored immediate union, and the result accordingly was, the flight of the three to Rhode Island, where the loving pair were married. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z I thought you understood," she said, "that I was in the Princess's house as a governess? The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z And a new governess, young, commonplacely pretty, and entirely heart-whole, came to take her place, to the open relief of Mr. Despard, and the little less pronounced satisfaction of the little girls. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Not so bad as thousands, for, remember, I shall confer, as well as receive a benefit, for my friend cannot afford a governess, and is too unwell to educate her children herself. Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-04T02:00:58.490Z In the park was an outdoor theater; children played diavolo; and nice little Spanish girls walked up and down with their English governesses. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z They have consequently been placed under the special tuition of a most estimable lady, Mademoiselle Jonquille, a resident governess, who is enjoined to speak to them nothing but French. Quodlibet 2012-03-26T02:00:29.820Z A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z She has probably had a special governess to teach her English, another for French or Italian. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z "Well, then, do you not think the most prudent thing we could do for Mabel would be to get her a nice place as a governess?" Mabel, Vol. III (of 3) A Novel 2012-04-04T02:00:58.490Z For want of proper attention to this, the post of governess is often rendered so unsatisfactory to one side, and so very uncomfortable to the other, but in that case at least something is defined. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z It is a sad one, no doubt, when, as in your case, a governess happens to be attached to those she is leaving. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z I am sure I have had masters and governesses enough here at Brunneck, and she has learned pretty nearly everything under the sun.' Fickle Fortune 2012-03-20T02:00:13.167Z And Palma residents say they can tell the girls who have English governesses—they always walk so quickly! The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z So Mason grew jealous, and took in the end a dislike to her, as servants often foolishly do to governesses; and only waited her time to manifest it. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z Following at some distance, with a smile of admiration, half servile, half sincere, on her fresh German face, was Kostia’s governess. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z This reply, with its allusion to the governess, Anne knew was the severest thing she could say; so, with a self-satisfied look at Frances' flushed face, she went away to put on her things. It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:14.013Z Then she said to her governess: "Say that over and over and over again, until I tell you not to;" and she shut her eyes. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z And your governess is not always glad, If you wake her up to say That a witch has been chasing you down a street Where the people have gone away. Kensington Rhymes 2012-03-15T02:00:28.607Z And all this time the little girl stood with bared arm before her governess, waiting for and claiming her pity, while the four blue marks seemed more plainly visible each time Amy looked at them. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z There was a governess at the warden’s house. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z A party of English school girls had been lately at Montanvert with their governess, and had set down their names one after another in the big book, as is the custom there. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z "What for an education has the child?" inquired the old governess, when Anne-Marie had been put to bed after a day of wonders. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z "Oh, you throw that in my teeth, because I was too poor to afford a governess for you?" Miser Farebrother, Volume I (of 3) A Novel 2012-03-13T02:00:28.227Z It was simple, but suited her well; and many a proud beauty, conscious of her own loveliness, would have fallen into the shade beside the governess in her plain white muslin. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z The police and the gendarmes were still searching for Makar and the governess, as much in the dark as ever. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z "Evangeline Taylor will be here in a moment," answered her mother; "her governess is bringing her." Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Alas! even the cycle of child poems must wait until Nancy could afford a larger apartment, and a governess for the "lilial blue-vein�d flower of her desire." The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z About thirty years ago a bright young Yankee girl went to the island of Cuba as a governess to the family of a sugar planter. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z If her cousin was foolish enough to fall in love with the governess, it was his fault, Anne was not going to take the blame, or have anything to do with it. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z They are, usually, governesses for life, and never marry," continued I. "Never marry—though they are so educated and disciplined, as to be peculiarly well-fitted for the fulfillment of woman's dearest and highest destiny! The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z This was not for what she was, but for her title: "Evangeline Taylor and her governess"—this to Mrs. Kip seemed almost royal. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Also they enjoyed their studies under the tuition of the kindest and most patient of governesses. Mildred's New Daughter 2012-02-27T03:00:15.313Z Lloyd's cheeks burned redder and redder as the story went on, and Daisy Dale, established as governess at Cameron Hall, again met Guy Wolvering and listened to his vows of deathless devotion. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z Forget not your promise to treat her more as a companion and friend, than as a governess, or as the latter class are sometimes treated. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z At the end of those eight years Rush advertised for a governess, engaged one Emily Sandford, who replied to the advertisement, and betrayed her; but she continued to live with him. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z His daughters, and their French governess, accompanied us in this well-remembered stroll. Buzz a Buzz or The Bees 2012-02-18T03:00:15.753Z But Ethel lingered behind, and Miss Olney, the governess, presently enquired in a kindly tone if there was anything she wanted to say to her. Mildred's New Daughter 2012-02-27T03:00:15.313Z She had such a hard time that she ran away and got a place as a governess when she was only sixteen. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z They do not know her as we do, and will simply treat her as a governess, nothing more. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z I had a governess and even at ten I began the study of English in connection with my regular lessons and music. In Kali's Country Tales from Sunny India 2012-02-17T03:00:28.697Z She is an adept of the first class, educated under the eye of Mesmer himself, instructed in all the intricacies of animal magnetism, and has, moreover, successfully followed the avocation of governess. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z She seemed in a despondent daze which provoked the observant governess. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Perhaps his recently developed hatred of her was a snare to deceive the governess? The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z And yet as she recalled his last words, and the fervent "God bless you," she thought that had she not been a governess, he might have loved her. It May Be True, Vol. II (of III) 2012-03-20T02:00:12.527Z There are three or four English women and girls, governesses, the Captain tells me, going to Stockholm and Christiania. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Her noisy delight over the prodigies who had been kept up to make acquaintance with their governess quite won the mother's heart. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z They were not in bed, for she could detect their voices prattling with the marquis and their governess. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z If I can be trusted with a French governess, I can surely be trusted with a confidential secretary. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z I have a companion now, instead of a governess. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z I quite sympathised with Francis, who was already unhappy at leaving Paris and his dear "Nounou," and very much put out with his new German governess who was deadly ill crossing. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Perhaps the governess, if an alliance could be brought about, might become a useful agent instead of a kill-joy. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z "Who would have ever thought," reflected the governess aloud, "that so long-suffering and useless piece of goods could be goaded to take her life?" The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Wasn't it you who suggested a French governess should be given the freedom of Church Row and who laughed at me for being an old beaver or some other prudish animal because I objected? Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z It had been Wellgood's custom to go every summer to Norway by himself, leaving his daughter at school, to the care of her governess, or, for the last year or two, of her companion. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z When the curtain rose on the second piece, "Amphitryon," I made an effort to listen, in order to please my governess, who was so kind and so conciliating. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z His annoyance was more than justified, for it was outrageous to engage a resident governess without consulting the wife and mother. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Yet after all, was it not essential that they should receive trained instruction, and had they not of their own accord turned from their mother to the governess? The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z You won't want to have her all the time with you, and the French governess can give the children their tea. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z She had been in effect Vivien's governess, her schoolmistress, invested with power and authority. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z She interlards her bantering remarks with French words, and we come to the conclusion that she is a governess who has drifted down. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z No need," replied the governess, carelessly, "for I can see round corners quite as well as you. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z He had never said, "My dears, you must care no longer for mamma, and adore your governess." The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z The French governess is canceled, and I shall come to an arrangement with Miss Coldwell by which she will add to her salary by undertaking all responsibility for Viola until Viola is in bed. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z And further, the English tutor and the English governess are to be found sprinkled over the globe, teaching some of the young of all nations. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z French and music, recognized accomplishments, are learned by daughters of the privileged class from their governesses or in the convents. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z "What motive have you for befriending a poor insignificant creature such as I?" bluntly demanded the governess. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z And a governess too--without a shred of a pedigree--who had never heard the name of her grandfather! The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z I don't doubt that it will be superb for Bertram's accent, but I absolutely decline to have a French governess bobbing in and out of my house. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z She trotted down to dinner, and took her usual place opposite her governess. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z Although he has masters for his studies now, his affection still clings to his Austrian governess, whom, none the less, he dearly loves to tease. Spanish Highways and Byways 2012-02-06T03:00:15.617Z Like one who dreams she sat listening to the victorious duet, wherein the marquis and the governess took up their tale by turns. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z If that poor thing had died, could he in course of time have been persuaded to take the governess? The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Would not Miss Hamilton decide that her post approximated too nearly to that of a governess? Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z He was conversing in quite a proper and grown-up tone with the governess. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z Firs, the old butler, is sung by a mezzo; Charlotte, the German governess, by a bass. ‘Cherry Orchard’ Gets Arias, Foxtrots in New Paris Work: Review 2012-02-01T17:32:55Z He is afraid that the lowly governess may supplant him with his brother, and would like to tumble me neck and crop into his yawning gaping trap! The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Meanwhile there was something new that rather puzzled the governess. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z So I thought that her governess could come here every morning just as easily as to Earl's Court. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Ralph raised his eyebrows a tiny bit, smiled at Maggie with a gentle pity in his face, and then, without vouchsafing any comment to her audacious observations, resumed his placid conversation with the governess. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z Nursery governesses are not permitted emotions or opinions of any kind, my dears.” The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z Then the 'cello began to drone and the governess to rub, and by and by the old man's face began to twitch and his toothless gums to move. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z That much was settled in the mind of the governess. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z The English governess will arrive every morning for Viola. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z These little girls delighted in doing plain needlework, and were intensely happy when they conquered a fresh word in their reading, and they always adored their governesses, and were rather sorry when holiday time came. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z “But even nursery governesses are human, I am told,” said DeLaunay, showing his white teeth. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z In her jealousy she took to secretly watching the movements of the governess, and discovered, to her dismay, that the steps of Clovis were constantly wending towards the school-room. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Her bringing-up had led the governess to hold a low opinion of human nature. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Obviously such a woman had never contemplated the notion of becoming a governess. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Maggie would have liked her to argue with her and remonstrate; she would have preferred anything to the calm and perfect stillness of the governess. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z I knew an old geezer—no offence to your governor, Lucy—who first took up Latin when his little boys were seven and eight, under a governess. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z A reconciliation between the marquise and her governess would never do at all! The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The governess was angered to think of the length of time which must elapse ere her scheme could be brought to a head--and all through the idiotic passion of Pharamond for the marquise! The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z No, sir, don't you worry about this governess. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z The third bang was the loudest of all, and it came with daylight, and strange and unfortunate to say, awoke the pupil, and not the governess. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z In a fortnight the little one left the old man behind, and after a month the governess said she'd have to go if he didn't do her more credit. Peter Binney A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:10.423Z The marquise looked at the governess in mild surprise. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Given that the abb� was rebuffed, compelled to abandon the siege of the marquise, would he not lose all motive for further assisting the governess? and that before she was prepared to do without him? The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Mrs. O'Hara has a white governess for her children, and intends that they shall be as accomplished as herself. Donahoe's Magazine, Vol. XV, No. 4, April, 1886 Volume 15 (January 1886 - July 1886) 2012-01-29T03:00:07.953Z My daughter, Monsieur, has an English governess," she explained, "but it seems a pity that she should spend her winters here and lose the chance of becoming really proficient in French. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z "But I can't possibly engage a governess out of motives of pity." The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z "Love!" laughed the governess with insolence, much tickled. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z The regrettable catastrophe was due to the governess's disobedience and malignity. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z He had seen all the children, who had crowded the nursery wing, with their nurses and governess, grow up and leave the nest one by one. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z I had a nursery governess when I was a small child. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z She was, in fact, the ideal governess, as far as could be seen. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z The astute abb� was puzzled by the governess. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Old de Vaux came cantering over on his pony, followed by a multitude of booby squires, who, grouped in solemn conclave in the banquet-hall of Lorge, sat dumb before the wisdom of the governess. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z She seemed to think she could do anything she liked, now that she had done with her governess. The Honour of the Clintons 2012-01-24T03:00:25.947Z But tuition to us then meant six or eight daily hours passed in dry conversation with the family governess or French master. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z "I have come up to engage a governess for the children." The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z I feared my governess would not let me read it, if she saw it, because it was about ghosts, so that I had only the Sunday to read it in. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z The abb� and the governess consulted frequently, each assuming the ingenuousness of infancy, whilst reconnoitring with wary eye the position of the other. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Do you go to school, or have you a governess?' A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z Her first lessons were from governesses and masters; when she was nine years old, she was sent to a private school in the neighborhood. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z "And if Miss Starling was the name of your last governess, please call her so." The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z The parsonage received three young ladies to share in the advantages of foreign governesses, provided for the education of its only daughter, Cecilia. The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 1 (of 3) A Novel 2012-01-22T03:00:26.330Z "Their governess is devoted to the little ones and loves them," mused Gabrielle, sadly sighing. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z If you will take my advice, Miss Vaughan, you will urge your brother to see at once about getting a good, strict governess to take charge of these children when you leave. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z We were also studying, sometimes at school, sometimes with our mother, who gave us the earliest lessons in French and music; more often, in those years, under various masters and governesses. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z "Don't you want to hear about your new governess?" The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z The governess became ailing, took to the sofa for weeks, and was obliged to leave. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z In her highly-strung condition of despairing nervousness, it seemed to Gabrielle that the governess looked as wicked and as menacing as the abb�. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z For two years since her parents' death, she had occupied the post of nursery governess in the family of a Mrs. Donaldson, to whom her mother had once shown some trifling kindness. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z A mere governess, a nobody; and Harry Vardon, with his magnificent intellect and splendid prospects, was going to throw himself away on that girl! Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z She had been a "dyly" governess only, in "Straoud" Green, where she lived, but her father had married again and she was not happy at home. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z The English governess for punishment used to make me read twenty pages of Alison's "History of Europe" aloud in the play-hours, a fact which I once told the learned historian, and it amused him greatly. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z "I congratulate madame on her humility," observed the governess, in her rolling bass, with a condescending headshake. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z She felt listlessly disinclined to state her qualifications as nursery governess, or mother's help, to the various ladies who hankered after such commodities. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z At breakfast next morning the party remained unchanged, but at lunch the two younger girls appeared upon the scene, with their governess, Miss Martindale. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Miss Phipp, your children's governess, is an old friend of mine. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z His daughters were made to learn Latin and mathematics, and, besides a resident English and foreign governess, the village schoolmaster came to teach them history and geography every evening. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z Could Clovis really have been base enough to confide such a mission as this to the governess, running off meanwhile himself like a coward? The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z "Certainly, I do; but, my dear boy, what do you know about nursery governesses?" Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z The governess talked little at lunch, and seemed altogether a rather subdued and timid girl. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z "Miss Starling, our last governess, taught us to keep it in order." The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Their father was a great martinet, and never permitted any encroachment on the regular lesson hours with their governess. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The ever-increasing scorn of the governess was mingled now with disdain of a more positive kind for the pusillanimity of the destined victim. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z "I love little children," Christina answered, with the simplicity and sincerity which characterised her; "since I have had to earn my own living, I have been a nursery governess." Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z Her educational efforts were supplemented by masters and mistresses during the London season and by French resident governesses in the winter months, but I do not think that we were at all overworked. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z "And you can be dear good girls as good as gold and I hope you will when the new governess comes to teach you." The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z She was never sent to school, but was taught under a succession of governesses. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The governess gently lured him back to his accustomed pursuits and studies, and his conscience ceased by degrees to pinch him. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z By the way, didn't you tell me the other day you knew of a nursery governess who wanted work? Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z Miss Custarde is not the only governess I have known who acquired extraordinary influence over her pupils. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z "Well, get another governess then, Nina, and pay her—what do you want to pay her?—forty?" The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z A boy may be made or marred at his public school, a girl likewise looks back to her governess as the mistress of her mind and manners. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z The abb� and the governess glanced at each other suspiciously, the same unspoken thought occurring to both. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z There are princesses there that are taken out daily to get the air, accompanied by a governess, exactly as you have seen a group of boarding-school girls walking out with their teachers. Bert Wilson at the Wheel 2012-01-14T03:00:19.827Z We liked several of our foreign governesses well enough, but they exercised no particular influence—and as a rule their engagements were only temporary. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Nancy, I wonder how mother persuaded him to let us have a really good governess. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Fr�u′lein, a young lady, miss—often in England for a German governess. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The governess scrutinised the stranger with lowering brow, for instinct whispered that something had been kept back from her, and that it was on her account he had come. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Her uncle, Prince of Orange, Marshal de Rieux, Montauban, Chancellor of Brittany, and her governess, Frances of Dinan, talked so much on the subject, that by degrees they got her slightly to change her mind. The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria 2012-01-10T03:00:13.777Z The little wife was in the charge of an English governess and seemed anxious to remain in another room out of her mother-in-law’s way. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Mrs. Clinton sat in Lady Birkett's drawing-room prepared to interview, one by one, twenty or more of the ladies who had answered her advertisement for a governess for the twins. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z In 1857 he married Miss Frances Dunlap of Portland, Me., a cultivated lady who had been the governess of his daughter. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Though not so docile as could be wished, and given to casual deceit, it was possible for the abb� and the governess to work together smoothly enough. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z It seems that she has been out at Albano for two summers, as governess to his sister's children; it was there that he saw her. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z We had heard that when the Empress was a girl, her governess would place her in front of a circle of chairs, and make her go round and address a polite remark to each. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Miss Bird had now departed and the new governess had not yet arrived, so they were their own mistresses within limits, and responsible for their own tidy and punctual appearance at the breakfast-table. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z I forgot all my governess’s injunctions against looking round, and stood staring after her, till she disappeared from view. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z Meanwhile it would be advisable not to lose touch of the governess, lest some day, when wanted, she should turn rusty and accuse him of neglect. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z The old Roman families have a fancy for English-speaking governesses, you know. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z At last when mother and governess failed to find something more to learn by heart I was told to commit portions of Thomas à Kempis to memory. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z She seated herself with the freedom which she thought my situation entitled her to use; and abruptly enquired, whether I was not seeking employment as a governess? Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z She had been taught by French governesses, German governesses and English governesses, but all had failed to prevent a kind of persecution by young men fascinated with the child's beauty or her money. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Your husband never wronged you with that governess, you foolish girl; you were racked by your own silly phantom jealousy. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Before the arrival of Pierre, Eva Churchill, followed by her governess, had come out to join her mother on the terrace; Eva's daily lessons were at an end, save that the music went on; Mlle. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z Soon afterwards we embarked in a governess—a clever young woman called Ada Mason, who was recommended by Lady Derby. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Some indulgence was bestowed, which was to be kept profoundly secret from the governess; or some neglected task was to be slily performed by proxy. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z He saw a small woman, young and rather pretty, of what might be classified as the "governess type." Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z I had never been farther away from this place than Alegria, but I had had French and English governesses, and I read books and dreamed dreams. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z On hearing his aunt’s recital of the governess’s actual position he at once resolved to press his suit. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z His old butler and his wife live in a nice home near by, and they have the children and their governess with them.” The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z Her sister, she told me, was waiting-maid to a lady who wanted a governess for her only child,—a girl about ten years old. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Clementina laughed at these innuendoes; sometimes she would even dare to substitute some phrase of her own for that of her governess. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Perhaps I used it when you did because we had an English governess at my home and speak it much in the family. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z In spite of his reserve the governess had detected his passion, and by the aid of confederates and her own adroitness had made herself possessor of his patrimony. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The governess, Miss Mason, was discharged, for it seemed unnecessary to pay her salary when there were no children for her to teach. The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z I made my obeisance with no very good will; and told her, that hearing she wanted a governess for Miss Boswell, I had taken the liberty to wait upon her. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The greatest sufferer was the English governess whom her father had engaged for her. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z She came here as a governess for my sister, but she was a lady, a person of birth. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z The governess, in a tremor of nervousness, answered nothing, left her pupils, and going to her own apartment, locked herself in. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Though I believe the twins, Ralph and Rowena, have been up there with a caretaker and a governess, or somebody to look out for them.” The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z At eight years old I was sent, with my sisters, to some ladies for daily lessons, and later to schools in Brighton and London, for my father disliked having a governess in the house. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z When Augustin saw his sister pass, he turned to the princess governess, and said to her: Princess, I entreat your highness to have compassion on that unfortunate woman, who will leave thirteen orphans. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z She was the daughter of a physician, and had been governess to the children of a Duke, and received a pension of �30 a year, which was her living. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z She remained with the visitors some little time, and then returned, informing the governess that her presence was immediately required by the two gentlemen, who had come on important business. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The governess and the twins were out for a drive, so I did not see them.” The Corner House Girls Snowbound 2011-12-30T03:00:22.827Z She had had nurses and governesses and maids from her first day on earth. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z She has never done anything in all her life, except speak English with governesses and show her classic nose in the Glorieta and the Alameda. The Joy of Captain Ribot 2011-12-15T03:00:16.510Z It included Lord Goring, Lady Denbigh, Lady Roxburgh, who had been the little princesses' governess, and Father Philip, who was accompanied by one of his old rivals of the Capuchin Order. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Lady E—— was then told that in pretending to be dependent on her own exertions for bread, the governess had imposed on her mistress. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The “all” was not a very large number; only Etheldene’s governess and father, herself, and a girl playmate. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z I didn't want to—er—speak French to a governess. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z The Dance of the Seven Veils was executed with all the propriety of a British governess. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z "I do not want another governess," she declared at last. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z The older kinsman alluded to had just died, and had bequeathed his sole possessions to the governess. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Even Etheldene laughed at this; and when the governess came, and servants with the tea, they found a very happy family indeed. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z She was governess with a friend of ours in India, and we know her well and are very fond of her. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z My mistress was sitting on the balcony of the room when she made this remark, and Miss Morgan, her English governess, was by her side. Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat 2011-12-08T03:00:24.107Z One day he sat on a stool beside his governess, who was to give him an English lesson. A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis 2011-12-06T03:00:21.763Z An aristocratic lady residing on the family estate in Ireland advertised for a governess for her daughters. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z Her governess now came up, and Miss Grant. Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea 2011-12-05T03:00:48.967Z Not that I could, for I don’t know anything; but I might have had to be a nursery governess and worry about after tiresome children. Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z “I am going to be a schoolmistress,—not a governess, not a teacher in a school merely, but the mistress of a school.” The Twa Miss Dawsons 2011-12-05T03:00:37.413Z "Little girls should be seen but not heard—at least, that's what my dear old governess taught me in the long ago." The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z The storekeeper had retired, only a young woman, passing through the place, a governess on her way to some Dutchman’s farm, watched by the sick man’s bed. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z She said that the governess would treat her ill; so he replied that she should have no occasion to do so, for that he would never complain to her. Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 2011-11-26T03:00:13.823Z “I might have had to go right away from everybody as a nursery governess, instead of having so many friends, and such a nice post, and plenty of liberty.” Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing 2011-12-08T03:00:28.210Z She chaperons a daughter, got up with hair � l'Anglaise, whose pantomimic countenance suggests that she has been drilled by an English governess with papa, prunes, prism, or some equivalent gymnastic. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z When I am well I shall ask her to let me go out and be a governess, and earn my own living. A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.597Z |
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