Sentence examples for a former governess from inspiring English sources

Are a former valet and a former governess, both dead, figments of the heroine's distraught mind or something more palpable and malevolent?

A former governess, forced apart from a romantic attachment to her employer's son, Finch, she makes the best of life as the young wife of a kind and ambitious grocer, whose death enables her to live in prosperous independence -- and to take charge of the schoolgirl outcast.

The opera, adapted from Henry James's novella of the same name, tells of a governess wrestling against the ghosts of a former governess, Miss Jessel, and a former gardener, Peter Quint, who are in turn trying to possess Miles and Flora, two orphans living in an English country mansion with an elderly housekeeper.

Also crucial to the shady shenanigans is a Mrs. Younge, who Pride and Prejudice devourers may recall as a former governess to Georgiana.

The book also delineates the rise of "Sensation" novelists like Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, whose hit book "Lady Audley's Secret" told the tale of a former governess turned murderous wife.

Her home is now with the liberal Kobelevs, including the four Kobelev children at varying stages of precociousness, presided over by a benevolent paterfamilias, a largely absent invalid mother, an ancient aunt and a French former governess.

Wives and Daughters chronicles the maturation of Molly Gibson, a sincere young woman whose widowed father, the town doctor, marries Hyacinth Kirkpatrick, a charming but petty widow and former governess in the household of Lord Cumnor.

The relationship between Wharton and her former governess grew from one of youthful intimacy into something more functional.

Perhaps the character of the ghostly Miss Jessel, the former governess, is overdrawn here as too horrific.

Potter initially wrote and illustrated stories about a troublemaking rabbit named Peter in the 1890s to entertain the ailing 5-year-old son of her former governess.

He finally finds his royal footing when Victoria names him head of her household, replacing her former governess (Ms. Rigg).