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The Governesses
Author | : Anne Serre |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2018-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811228088 |
Publishers Weekly Best Books in Fiction 2018 The sensational US debut of a major French writer—an intense, delicious meringue of a novella In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children’s education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book’s “deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader.” Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.
The Old Governess
Author | : Anna Maria Hall |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781356903719 |
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The Old Governess
Author | : Mrs. S. C. Hall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780649322466 |
The Governess
Author | : Evelyn Hervey |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2011-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1448202906 |
When Harriet Unwin takes the position of governess in the well-to-do Thackerton household, it would seem that fortune has smiled on her at last. That is until William Thackerton is found stabbed, and Harriet accused of murder... In a desperate attempt to prove her innocence, she embarks on a daring scheme to save herself from the gallows. In doing so she uncovers the dark secrets which the family is trying to hide behind a veneer of Victorian respectability.
The Victorian Governess
Author | : Kathryn Hughes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781852853259 |
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 original diaries and a variety of previously undiscovered sources, Kathryn Hughes describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of governesses. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects. The governess provides a key to the central Victorian concept of the lady. Her education consisted of a series of accomplishments designed to attract a husband able to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed from birth. Becoming a governess was the only acceptable way of earning money open to a lady whose family could not support her in leisure. Being paid to educate another woman's children set in play a series of social and emotional tensions. The governess was a surrogate mother, who was herself childless, a young woman whose marriage prospects were restricted, and a family member who was sometimes mistaken for a servant.
My Dear Governess
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2012-06-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0300169892 |
Presents a treasure trove of 135 letters, written over a period of 42 years, from Edith Wharton to her teacher, considered a great find in the literary world, given that only three letters from the Age of Innocence author's childhood and early adulthood were thought to have survived.
The Silent Governess
Author | : Julie Klassen |
Publisher | : Bethany House |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0764207075 |
A dangerous secret...an overheard conversation...and a woman who is not what she seems. Will hidden pasts ruin their hope of finding love?
The Governess
Author | : Mary Martha Sherwood |
Publisher | : Kessinger Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781104391317 |
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