The Victorian Governess by Kathryn Hughes

The Victorian Governess

Kathryn Hughes

278 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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The figure of the governess is very familiar from nineteenth-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This book is the first rounded exploration of what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on or...

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