I am doing a research project and need some ideas of novels to use which feature governesses as their main character. I am looking at factors such as why they were written e.g to educate, to emphasise their plight? Were they realistic portrayals? Were there differences between male and female writers ideas? The more novels I can look into the better and then narrow it down to the most productive for my work.
2006-09-16 10:15:11 · 11 answers · asked by Denise B 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Cousin Kate by Georgette Heyer.
2006-09-16 13:25:05 · answer #1 · answered by rjr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is already a book about your topic, called The Victorian Governess by Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros, available from Lund University Press. The website below should give you a list (have had a look and it mentions lots of books!) - they are nearly all written by women, however. You must remember that governesses were employed by rich families. And the boys were usually sent away to boarding school to be taught; they were not normally taught at home. So male authors did not have experiences to fall back on.
Don't forget Little Women - one of the characters (Meg) was a governess - and it will give you an American angle!
Good luck with your research project - and all the reading you will be doing!
2006-09-16 18:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i appreciate Persuasion, my second widespread of Austen's books after delight and Prejudice, so i might want to truthfully bypass with that one. it really is an staggering tale of love lost and finally, after many trials, regained. i develop into under no circumstances fairly in a position to get into Jane Eyre regardless of the reality that, yet actually both are worth a examine.
2016-11-27 19:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by georgene 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe 'Shirley' by Charlotte Bronte. And Anne's other novel,
'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' (exact title?) may have some info in it. Elizabeth Gaskell's writings may help, and Harriet Martineau's writings may help too.
2006-09-16 10:58:13 · answer #4 · answered by Bronweyn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wasn't Becky Sharpe (in Vanity Fair) a governess at one point, or supposed to be a governess until other adventures befell her?
I can't remember for sure, but have this niggling feeling that she was ...
2006-09-18 10:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
'Turn of the Screw' by H. James is maybe the ultimately weird governess novel, although it's really a novella, or possibly a long short story.
2006-09-18 14:57:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anna and the king of Siam (the King and I) about Anna Leonowens
2006-09-16 10:20:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
_Villette_, by Charlotte Bronte
2006-09-18 20:42:20 · answer #8 · answered by sixo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this link. Hope it helps.
2006-09-16 10:25:10 · answer #9 · answered by Steve K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Turn of the Screw," by Henry James.
2006-09-16 10:25:04 · answer #10 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋