The Victorian Governess

Author:   Kathryn Hughes
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781852850029


Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 July 1993
Format:   Hardback
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The Victorian Governess


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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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Author:   Kathryn Hughes
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hambledon Continuum
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.568kg
ISBN:  

9781852850029


ISBN 10:   1852850027
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   01 July 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A fascinating and very readable study. -- Choice <br> A wonderful contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on gender and class in Victorian England. -- Albion <br>


A fascinating and very readable study. -- Choice A wonderful contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on gender and class in Victorian England. -- Albion


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