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    A governess is a term for a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home. A governess often lives in the...
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  • The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher. The screenplay focuses on a young Jewish woman of Sephardic...
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  • Look up governor, governess, or gubernatorial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political...
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  • The China Governess is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in 1963, in the United Kingdom by Chatto & Windus, London. It is the seventeenth...
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    A governess cart is a small two-wheeled horse-drawn cart. Their distinguishing feature is a small tub body, with two opposed inward-facing seats. They...
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    Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote country house, becomes convinced...
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  • The Governess of the Children of France (sometimes the Governess of the Royal Children) was an office at the royal French court during pre-Revolutionary...
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  • Marion Crawford (category Governesses to the British Royal Household)
    Crawford, CVO (5 June 1909 – 11 February 1988) was a Scottish educator and governess to Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth...
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    known with the publication of her memoirs, beginning with The English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which chronicled her experiences in Siam...
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    Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It concerns a young, inexperienced Governess sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually...
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    Anne Brontë (category English governesses)
    1836 and 1837, and between 1839 and 1845 lived elsewhere working as a governess. In 1846 she published a book of poems with her sisters and later two...
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    The governor (Dutch: landvoogd) or governor-general (gouverneur-generaal) of the Habsburg Netherlands was a representative appointed by the Holy Roman...
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    2010, she has been a "chaser" on the ITV game show The Chase as "The Governess", and was a contestant on the 2018 series of the ITV reality show I'm...
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  • "The Little Governess" is a 1915 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Signature on 18 October 1915 under the pen name of Matilda...
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    Kat Ashley (category English governesses)
    1565), also known as Kat Ashley or Astley, was the first close friend, governess, and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. She was the...
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    Charlotte Brontë (category English governesses)
    Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839, she undertook the role of governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months...
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  • English Nanny & Governess School (ENGS), founded in 1984 by Sheilagh Roth provides childcare education and training. Its graduates are employed in the...
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    The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children. As such and in itself...
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  • The Governess is a 1958 television play broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation based on a play by Patrick Hamilton, which had been performed...
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  • "Cascades" Released: 2 June 2015 "Too Bad, So Sad" Released: 17 July 2015 "Fortunes" Released: 7 August 2015 "The Governess" Released: 11 September 2015...
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    a young adult, Randon converted to Roman Catholicism and worked as a governess, teacher, nun, and missionary before retiring at the age of 75 in 1979...
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    Agnes Grey (category Fictional governesses)
    republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments...
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    private governess, and in so doing double her salary, but her governess position makes her aware of her ambiguous social position as a governess to a child...
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  • Margaret Bryan (category Governesses to the English Royal Household)
    Margaret Bryan, Baroness Bryan (c. 1468 – c. 1551/52) was lady governess to the children of King Henry VIII of England, the future monarchs Mary I, Elizabeth...
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    were educated at home under the supervision of their mother and their governess, Marion Crawford. Lessons concentrated on history, language, literature...
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    Marthe de Roucoulle (category Governesses to the Prussian court)
    French Huguenot educator and salonnaire active in Prussia. She was the governess first of Frederick William I of Prussia and later of his son Frederick...
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  • Marie Louise de Rohan (category Governesses to the Children of France)
    January 1720 – 4 March 1803), also known as Madame de Marsan, was the governess of Louis XVI of France and his siblings. She was an influential figure...
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  • Michael Parks, Elizabeth Avellan, Robert Kurtzman, Gregory Nicotero The Governess Sony Pictures Classics Sandra Goldbacher (director/screenplay); Minnie...
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    Marquis de Louvois, who was named Governess of the Children of France. Affectionate and intelligent, the governess assembled a considerable collection...
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  • Salzburg, Austria. It is a fictional retelling of her experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg...
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