Mary Russell Mitford (who did not know HLP ) later praised her. HLP had met Mitford's teacher the future writer Frances Arabella Rowden , in Wales while Rowden struggled as a neglected, uncared for governess. HLP had sought her out, brought her forward, talked to her, wrote to her, gave her heart and hope and happiness.

The narrator claims not to be TCP , but a close male friend. A prime suspect is the hack writer Paul Whitehead , who was one of her lovers. Nevertheless the tone has convinced many readers that this is a woman telling her own story. Some statements in the first person sound more like Phillips (I am not an Author by Profession; I also aver this is my first Attempt in public Writing of any Sort whatsoever.) Others sound more like Whitehead, like the well-known disavowal of the necessary skills for the genre of romance: here I must confess myself at a Loss.—I undertook to write Mrs. Muilman's Apology, expecting nothing to set forth but a simple Narrative of Facts, mostly Litigations, (and my Readers will see I am but indifferently qualified for that) but I must confess I am quite unskilled in the Art of romantic Description . . . . The rape is presented in the third person, as if by a concerned third party. Several elements in the text sound more like a woman's voice than a man's—particularly the proto-feminist tone (especially the remorseless mockery of men both individually and as a category) and the mention of Sarah Fielding 's The Governess as a book which might, if only TCP had read it in time, have enabled her to live a blameless life.

Growing up in great houses—Penshurst in Kent and Ludlow Castle in Shropshire—Mary Sidney was educated by tutors and a governess, in modern languages, Latin, music, medicine, and more unusually in geography, and perhaps Greek. Scholarly debate continues as to whether or not she learned any Hebrew. Her later amusements included needlework and medicine.

About this time MP was working as a governess in a Quaker family of Mountmelick in Queen's County.

CP found a third wife in Harriet Georgina Robson , his daughters' Catholic governess; they married on 13 September 1881. She was eighteen years his junior.

The governess at Knebworth was, like the guest, from Bury St Edmunds. She deflated Ouida 's pretentious claims to aristocratic lineage by referring to parties at her Union Terrace home and by calling her Miss Ramé, rather than de la Ramée, the name she had given herself during the early days of her rise to literary prominence in London.

In July 1797 Isaac Taylor the elder responded to the harsh economic climate (caused in turn by the war with France) by beginning to employ his children in his engraving business instead of apprentices. He paid them wages (which was not the practice in many family businesses). AGT's later comment suggests how far this was out of step with usual gender roles. She said he thought he was fitting us for self-support in after life, not otherwise than feminine. The implication is that others, then or later, saw their work as unfeminine. From 1797 she and Jane alternated a week of engraving with a week of housekeeping. During their non-engraving weeks they each in turn saw to the cooking, washing, and getting up the fine linens. Ann later turned down a job as a governess; but well-meaning people were always advising the sisters to teach instead of engraving.

After Elinor Sutherland (later EG ) turned fourteen she no longer had a governess. Eager for intellectual stimulation, she took it upon herself to read everything in her stepfather 's book collection, which had recently reached Jersey and to which she had free access. At this stage her reading centred in the eighteenth century: Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88), Sterne 's A Sentimental Journey (1768), Voltaire 's Zadig (1748), La Rochefoucauld 's Maxims (1665), and Chesterfield 's Letters to his Son (1774). The last two of these became like Bibles to her. She later wrote that she became saturated with Bourbon Court History, and the atmosphere of ancient Rome which I absorbed from Gibbon superposed itself upon my old love of all things Greek. When she tired of the books in the library, she visited St Helier's public library to read and memorise passages from the encyclopaedia.

The Wynnes employed a governess, and Charlotte was educated at home until around the age of sixteen. She was taught art, music, and European languages, although she was mediocre at some of these subjects. She lamented her inability to draw, and never performed musically in public.

Eleonora Sheldon writes her life story to an absent female friend. She was orphaned at ten after her proud, extravagant mother had bankrupted her father, and was educated by her father's ex-clerk, a good and now rich man. Eleonora is helped by a female benefactor and grows up to work as a governess; she has a horrible job with arrogant employers (near Leeds) and an equally horrible job interview. Her eventual happy ending comes in marriage and children: her husband, Frank Carlton, is now a major, another former orphan who made his own way in the East India Company . AG 's racy dialect expressions are memorable, like can't ketch ould birds in a chaffing dish.. Other details which stand out have to do with class or gender relations. A proud mother is disgusted when a poor woman kisses her baby; eighteen-year-old Eleonora is free to come and go with her own key; a young woman suffer[s] herself to be consigned—like a bale of goods—to a gentleman in Bengal. An extended comparison of Leeds with Bristol works to the advantage of Bristol. Working people around Leeds (as opposed to their respected employers) are said to be scarce humanized: the men are drunken, and there is not above one wedding in ten that the bride was not in a state of pregnancy before the arrival of the wedding day.

When Thomas Gonne was stationed in India in 1879, and after years of unsuccesful governesses and intervention from relatives, Maud's and Kathleen's education was entrusted to a French governess. MG attributed most of the little education I possess to this Mademoiselle Deployant , a strong Republican of egalitarian and philanthropic sympathies.What was of more importance, she had given us the desire to learn; she made us love literature and took the trouble to discuss it with us.

For five years DG was educated at home by a Scottish governess.

In 1924, GG fell in love with his little sister's governess, Gwen Howell , who was on uncertain terms with her soldier fiancé posted in the Indian Ocean. Greene bombarded her with letters and poems, but then Gwen's fiancé returned to England, and in February 1925 the engaged couple were married. Biographer Norman Sherry cites this disappointment as the impetus for GG 's first try at Russian roulette.

JEH 's father, Charles Harrison , was a Hull timber merchant trading with Russia. In 1855 he married the young Welsh governess he had recently taken on, Gemimi Meredith , whose volatility, strictness, and previous status as an employee caused conflicts between her and the three children of his first marriage.

The title-page quotes Anna Seward . JH uses a more elaborate style in this novel than formerly. It centres on Matilda, daughter of the widowed Earl of Colchester, and on Mrs Clarendon, the widow of a colonel, who at the outset of the novel is engaged as Matilda's governess and mother-figure. This gossipy, domestic, upper-class novel covers two generations and deals with child-rearing issues such as inoculation for smallpox.

Again LMH uses copious footnotes (often citing examples from actual life) to enforce her sometimes heavy-handed points. Her Advertisement hopes humbly to recommend the fear and love of God as an interwoven principle of human action. This makes for a novel in some ways more conventional than The Countess and Gertrude. Rosanne, born to a formerly divorced mother and a world-weary father (who admires Voltaire and is an atheist for convenience) and educated by a French governess who believes in the perfectability of the human race, spends much of the story developing a secret Christian faith, until she persuades her father to go to church with her. At the end she marries into the aristocracy.

The orphaned heroine, Emanuella, is young, rich, and beautiful. Haywood, after thoroughly engaging the reader's sympathies for her, puts her through cruel sufferings. Her guardian, Don Pedro, seeks to get control of her fortune by marrying her to his son Don Marco. Don Marco is stunted, deformed, and ugly, but a man of honour and feeling. He rescues Emanuella from the prison where his father has immured her, and eventually kills himself to convince others of her worth and virtue. His death produces his father's confession of his crimes, but no happy outcome for Emanuella. She endures want and deprivation, work as a governess, and betrayal by a female friend Berilla. She has an illegitimate child, Victorinus, by her beloved Emilius, and (after living long enough to show herself a strong and devoted mother) dies of a broken heart.

Frances became well versed in most kinds of books, as well as good at dancing. Her books included history, theology, and romances—almost every subject except philosophy. Her father had taught Italian to the poet Elizabeth Singer (who was a regular visitor to Longleat during Frances's childhood) and may have taught his daughter as well before he died. She did a lot of reading aloud to her mother, and it was said that she never forgot anything she read. Her governess, Mrs Rothery, who had set out to teach her and her sister what was requisite for reasonable women and Christians, lived with her after she became Lady Hertford.

The best part of the novel is the earliest, in which the scene is set with the girls' education. Their sexist father, Justice Bumble (who loves money and considers women as incumbrances), is a long-time bachelor when an attack of gout and the knowledge that his prospective heir is a spender combine to induce him to marry in order to father a son. The same motives dictate his choice of a wife. The meekness of her disposition . . . seemed to incite him to shew the manliness of his, by the most violent arbitrary behaviour. He enjoys feeling superior to her, treats her like a servant, and gives her little of his company. The only time he pays attention to her is a brief period after she bears him a son; she then dies at the birth of the twins. The son is of course indulged to excess and becomes so rude and ungovernable, that the Justice found it necessary to send him to [boarding] school . . . from that period his Father's affection for him gradually declined. The girls are given a travesty of education by a French governess, formerly a journeywoman-mantua-maker. Whether Mademoiselle Caqueteuse had conceived a contempt for learning, from perusing Moliere 's Les Femmes Sçavantes, or from what other cause I know not.

EH began work in London: she taught, worked as a both a paid companion and a governess, and did secretarial work.

The education of JOH (then Pearl Richards) began with an English governess at the family's London home. In her teens she made full use of the educational and cultural resources of the capital. Annie S. Swan noted her scholarly expertise as an adult in Greek history and philosophy, the writings of the Church Fathers, and the literature of the time of Dante .

The title-page quotes Akenside . The heroine, Maria, is brought up by an aunt, and has to make her way by her own earnings as a governess after her aunt dies. She is ultimately re-united with her father and becomes a countess.

MCH was taught by a Welsh governess whom she despised for forbidding her to read novels.

It is probable that she moved to the capital in the early 1870's initially hoping to find work as a governess or embroiderer, and then began writing for The Ladies Drawing Room Gazette. She quickly found success in the field of journalism. CEH preferred working early in the day: She is up at six every morning, and puts in two hours writing before breakfast, recruiting her energy by a short siesta in the afternoon.