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Governess

The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres

Governess( )
Author: Brandon, Ruth
ISBN:978-0-8027-1630-9
Publication Date:Apr 2008
Publisher:Walker & Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $25.99
Book Description:

The rise and fall of the English governess, the domestic heroine who inspired Victorian literature's greatest authors. Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane Austen in Emma, was to "retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Business & Economics / Labor / General
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Social Science / Women's Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.78 x 9.18 x 1.05 Inches
Book Weight:1.41 Pounds



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