Sentence examples for * governess in from inspiring English sources

He has parked them at Bly, his remote country estate, and puts the governess in charge.

Wollstonecraft's first novel, Mary - A Fiction was written during the summer of 1787 while serving as a governess in Ireland.

She also sings the Governess in Britten's The Turn of  the Screw, the final production of Glyndebourne's summer season.

She graduated from the Hartford Female Seminary in 1843 and for some years thereafter taught school and was a governess in Burlington, New Jersey.

and she liked to bowl for money.. Her father..obtained for Marie a position as a governess in a large house..".

"THE chapter on the Fall of the Rupee you may omit," counselled Oscar Wilde's prudish governess in "The Importance of Being Earnest".

It reminds her, curled up there on the sofa in her underpants, her shirt draped over her shoulders, of another film she likes much more, also ultimately about a blind person, in which a winsome governess falls in love with the master of the house and he, after only a moment's hesitation (either it happens like that or it doesn't), with her.

Rereading James's ghost story about a governess left in charge of two children in a country house, I found it to be a far better tale than its author believed.

As she progresses from being his mistress, set up in fancy digs, to being his child's governess, living in his home, she very nearly, as the poem says, folds up and gets lost herself.

The magic of James's story, showing a governess put in charge of the apparently possessed young Miles and Flora, lies in its dark, suggestive power.

Mr. Alda isn't altogether adept in the necessary matter of exposition, either, leaving Ms. Gunn to deliver a stagy monologue describing Marie's unhappy history as a governess back in Poland.