Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres by Ruth Brandon

Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres

Ruth Brandon

303 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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The rise and fall of the English governess, the domestic heroine who inspired Victorian literature's greatest authors.Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and...

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