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By mid-June 1907
Margaret McMillan, socialist, educationist,...
Both sisters were born in New York State, where their Scottish parents had emigrated, but they moved back to Scotland with their mother following their father's early death, and as adults gravitated to London. Margaret was an early member of the
and a startlingly successful and politically charismatic speaker and journalist on behalf of the party and later of other leftist causes. Some of her fiction portrays the transformation wrought in bourgeois lives by a committed governess, and some features vignettes of child life, labour, and ill health in Bradford [which] served to illuminate broader questions of political principle and action. She believed that the education of working people's children was the key to a better society. Together the sisters founded the open-air
—in 1911 according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in 1914 according to the webside of the school, which continues in the early twentieth century as the
.
1896
Sydney C. Grier published her realist novel...
published her realist novel set in Mesopotamia, His Excellency's English Governess.
1815
Elizabeth Appleton published Private Education;...
Appleton warned parents that many women seeking governess jobs, and many books written for young children, were inferior and inadequate. She blamed the vast numbers of badly written books for children on the rush by men who felt threatened by the bluestockings, and who therefore dashed into print without knowing anything about education.
1854
Scottish-born Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910),...
Spence had worked in Australia as a governess and schoolteacher, and had published contributions to local newspapers. She later became known as a social and political reformer even more than as a writer.
24 July 1789
Marie Antoinette wrote for her children's...
wrote for her children's governess Instructions donnè à la marquise de Tourzel, which was later published among her letters.
1923
The London Zoo appointed its first female...
She had begun her working life as a governess since repeated applications for veterinary study had been rejected on account of her sex.
1686
Madame de Maintenon founded, in a nunnery...
The female pupils had often been daughters of officers killed in battle. Maintenon, born Françoise d'Aubigné and later married to satirical poet
, had been employed after her first husband's death as governess to the royal children. She became
's adviser and mistress, then, secretly in July 1683, his wife. Some of
's tragedies had their first performance as productions by girls at the St Cyr school.
Anne Taylor
Standard Name: Taylor, Anne,, governess
The Governess
Fielding, Sarah. The Governess. A. Millar, 1749.
The Governess
Sherwood, Mary Martha. The Governess. F. Houlston, 1820.
The Governess
Fielding, Sarah, and Jill E. Grey. The Governess. Oxford University Press, 1968.
The China Governess
Allingham, Margery. The China Governess. Chatto and Windus, 1963.
The Governess
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. The Governess. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839, 2 vols.
Miss Weeton's Journal of a Governess
Weeton, Ellen, and John Joseph Bagley. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969, 2 vols.
Miss Weeton: Journal of a Governess
Weeton, Ellen. Miss Weeton: Journal of a Governess. Editor Hall, Edward, Oxford University Press, H, Milford, 1936–1939, 2 vols.
The Governess
Hunt, Margaret, 1831 - 1912 et al. The Governess. Chatto and Windus, 1912.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Leonowens, Anna. The English Governess at the Siamese Court. Trübner, 1870.
The Daily Governess
Smythies, Harriet. The Daily Governess. Hurst and Blackett, 1861, 3 vols.
Only the Governess
Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Only the Governess. Richard Bentley and Son, 1888, 3 vols.
Bread upon the Waters; A Governess's Life
Craik, Dinah Mulock. Bread upon the Waters; A Governess’s Life. Governesses’ Benevolent Institution, 1852.
Introduction
Bagley, John Joseph et al. “Introduction”. Miss Weeton’s Journal of a Governess, edited by Edward Hall, Augustus M. Kelley, 1969.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Leonowens, Anna. The English Governess at the Siamese Court. Oxford University Press, 1988.
Through Connemara in a Governess Cart
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. W. H. Allen, 1892.
Hints on the Modern Governess System
Rigby, Elizabeth. “Hints on the Modern Governess System”. Fraser’s Magazine, Vol.
30
, Nov. 1844, pp. 571-83.