A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen PDF book is popular Biography & Autobiography book written by Agnes Porter. The book was released by A&C Black on 1998-01-01 with total hardcover pages 402. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen by Agnes Porter in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
We only know a surprisingly small number of eighteenth-century women as personalities. This is true, in particular, of women who had to work for their living. W
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 yet not part of the family, no
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 round
What happened when Jane Austen's heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen's novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, adv
When Jane Austen dies at the age of just 41, Anne, governess to her brother, Edward Austen, is devastated and begins to suspect that someone might have wanted h
