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050 00 $aLC41$b.B73 2008
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100 1 $aBrandon, Ruth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50043319
245 10 $aGoverness :$bthe lives and times of the real Jane Eyres /$cRuth Brandon.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bWalker & Co. :$bDistributed to the trade by Macmillan,$c2008.
300 $ax, 303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 277-285) and index.
505 00 $g1.$t'There is nobody in the house with whom I can be on equal terms' -- $g2.$t'In these days, there do not exist such people as Miss Porter' -- $g3.$tMary and her sisters: the problem of girls' education -- $g4.$tClaire Clairmont: after the fall -- $g5.$tNelly Weeton: the cruelty of men -- $g6.$tAnna and the King: the unbreakable bonds of class -- $g7.$tAnna Jameson: the pursuit of independence -- $g8.$tThe Reform Firm: what do women want?
520 1 $a"Marooned within the confines of other people's lives, neither servants nor family members, governesses occupied an uncomfortable social limbo. And, being poor and insignificant, their papers were mostly lost, so that much of what we know about their strange and unsatisfactory lives comes either from novels, such as Jane Eyre or Vanity Fair, or from fleeting glimpses in other people's memoirs. But a few journals and letters have come down to us, providing a vivid record of what it was to be a lone professional woman at a time when such a person, to all intents and purposes, did not exist. In Governess, historian Ruth Brandon chronicles the lives of these women, some famous, such as the Brontes and Anna Leonowens (whose memoirs inspired The King and I) and some quite unknown, their papers surfacing by the merest chance." "Brandon shows how the governess-although she could be relied on to teach only the little she had herself been permitted to learn - was an essential part of that dream. The book follows the stories of governesses throughout the nineteenth century, until the eventual founding of Girton College, Cambridge - the first women's university college."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGovernesses$zEngland$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen$xEducation$zEngland$xHistory.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000369-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2008000369-d.html
852 00 $bbar,stor$hLC41$i.B73 2008
852 00 $bglx$hLC41$i.B73 2008