His mother, who came from Ireland, was a governess to the children of John E. Roosevelt, a cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Following the collapse of her school, Wollstonecraft became a governess to the family of Lord Kingsborough for a brief and unsatisfactory period.
Eight years pass, and Jane arrives at Thornfield mansion to serve as a governess for the ward of the mysterious Edward Rochester.
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.
After the bank's failure, Hobbs worked as a governess for J. Wesley Ladd (brother of William S. Ladd) in Portland.
Margaretta Eagar, a governess for the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, described Elisabeth as "a sweet and pretty child, with wide grey-blue eyes and a profusion of dark hair.
For those who don't already know, the film tells the story of a young woman who leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the seven children of a naval officer widower.
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.
Wuthering Heights comprised two volumes of the standard tripledecker format of the time, while Anne's tale of a governess, based on her own experiences of teaching variously appalling children in rich houses, made up the third.
