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The Governess : an Anthology by Trev Broughton and Ruth Symes is a education title available to read on EtoBox.
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The governess has haunted the British imagination since the eighteenth century, when in the indomitable person of the preceptress, she helped to define what it meant to be a rational woman. In the nineteenth century she evolved into a far more enigmatic figure, embodying both the hopes and fears of the moneyed classes and marking faultlines in the ideal of domestic femininity. Who was the Victorian governess and why did her fate inspire generations of novelists and reformers? This lively and eng
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Common subject areas: education, pedagogy.
- Author
- Trev Broughton and Ruth Symes
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780312210892
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Education, Science, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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