The Victorian Governess

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781852850029
  • 01 juli 1993
  • 278 pagina's
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The figure of the governess is very familiar from 19th-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This work explores what life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of sources, the author describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of the governess. 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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Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
01 juli 1993
Aantal pagina's
278
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Hoofdauteur
Kathryn Hughes
Hoofduitgeverij
Bloomsbury

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Studieboek
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Verpakking breedte
162 mm
Verpakking hoogte
28 mm
Verpakking lengte
235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
576 g

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Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards, gilt lettering spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: frontispiece, xvi, 256pp., illustrations, list illustrations, acknowledgements, epilogue, appendix, chapternotes & references, general bibliography, index. Fine copy.,
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