Sentence examples for a governess for from inspiring English sources

After working as a governess for several years, Haswell published her first novel, Victoria, in 1786 and the next year married the businessman William Rowson.

Eight years pass, and Jane arrives at Thornfield mansion to serve as a governess for the ward of the mysterious Edward Rochester.

Clairmont was a governess for decades, but her early life with Byron, Shelley and her stepsister, Mary Shelley (daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft), gets the most attention.

At the start, for example, prolonged attention is paid to Victoria Winters Bella Heathcotee), who is hired as a governess for David, and whose deportment hints at a promising blend of Maria von Trapp and "The Turn of the Screw".

Mary Wollstonecraft, in fact, was a governess for less than a year before she turned to writing essays, children's stories, a novel and works on the education of women.

Dymant supported herself by working as a governess for the leader of the Berlin Orthodox Jewish community, and later as cook and seamstress, in a Jewish orphanage where she also lived.

Jane grows up and leaves to work as a governess, but for all its comfort and grandeur, Thornfield is also a frightening place.

The Duchess, who was pro-German, hired a German governess for her daughters, bought them plain clothing and even had them confirmed in the Lutheran faith.

Teresa Cristina found ignoring her husband's secret infidelities hidden from the public, though not always from the Empress more difficult after Pedro II named an aia (governess) for their daughters on 9 November 1856.

After the parents of her first love, Casimir Zorawski, insisted he would never marry a governess, she left for Paris.

She was educated privately by a governess and trained for the stage at Rada in London, making her debut in 1935 as First Tiger Lily in Alice Through the Looking Glass at the Playhouse.