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Victorian Governess (Paperback, New edition)
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Victorian Governess (Paperback, New edition)
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The figure of the governess is very familiar from
nineteenth-century literature. Much less is known about the
governess in reality. This book is the first rounded exploration of
what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on
original diaries and a variety of previously undiscovered sources,
Kathryn Hughes describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age
of governesses. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching
methods, social position and prospects.The governess provides a key
to the central Victorian concept of the lady. Her education
consisted of a series of accomplishments designed to attract a
husband able to keep her in the style to which she had become
accustomed from birth. Becoming a governess was the only acceptable
way of earning money open to a lady whose family could not support
her in leisure.Being paid to educate another woman's children set
in play a series of social and emotional tensions. The governess
was a surrogate mother, who was herself childless, a young woman
whose marriage prospects were restricted, and a family member who
was sometimes mistaken for a servant.>
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