Sentence examples for English governess from inspiring English sources

Her English governess, it turned out, had had other duties besides teaching the children.

The author's name was a pseudonym of the children's English governess, Frances B. Whishaw.

"It was up to the English governess to run herself ragged keeping it clean".

But Flaubert also dallied with housemaids, actresses, artists' models, society hostesses, and the English governess of his niece, Caroline.

Zhang seems to have modeled herself after the English governess who defied society's conception of her proper place.

He is a poet, and the women are his mother, an English governess, his young niece and Geneviève herself.

Deprived of sex, her husband began a series of affairs with English governesses imported for the purpose.

Until the age of 16, Nehru was educated at home by a series of English governesses and tutors.

The boys were educated at Harrow and Oxbridge and girls had English governesses who gave the children English names.

There was tennis and swimming, and English governesses provided schooling; sailing tours to north Africa and Ottoman Constantinople offered education of a different kind.

She spoke English fluently (better than she spoke Urdu), was taught by English governesses, took degrees at Oxford and Harvard, browsed in Harrods, drove a yellow MG, kept a Kensington flat and holidayed in Gstaad and Cannes.