governess
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When Elizabeth saw the manuscript, she wrote to a friend that “the governess has gone off her head.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The new TV series, based on the novel of the same name by Janice Hadlow, centres on the Bennet family's middle sister, Mary, as she becomes a governess to the Gardiner family.
From BBC ● Dec. 13, 2025
Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House as a governess with a secret, which would be enough for many a novel set in Victorian England.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
She worked as a governess in Paris and later converted to Catholicism and was baptized at the age of 26.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
Then they followed their governess inside and whispered excitedly among themselves about what their important responsibilities might be.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Children are taught by what are still called governesses, and grunt work is shared — workers and owners alike wash their own dishes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Among those who taught her was her father, along with a senior teacher at Eton College, several French and Belgian governesses who taught her French, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who taught her religion.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
For Americans who associate British TV with crime-solving vicars and emotionally repressed governesses, the fantastically tacky contestants of “Love Island” can be a shock to the system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
By 1853 she was head of a hospital in London, England, for governesses, women who couldn’t afford private care but would not consider going to a public facility.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
As a rule, brave explorers do not have worried governesses mouthing objections to their adventures in Parts Unknown.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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