Sentence examples for as governess from inspiring English sources

Think of it: the automobile as governess, slapping drivers' wrists when they get sassy.

Whilst educating young minds as governess, she never neglected her own.

Later, as governess at Thornfield, we see her grow intellectually and blossom emotionally in that magical, sinister place.

Her pride in being a published author was chastened by the necessity of working as governess to an aristocratic family.

He moves her into his house as governess to his daughter (she being a rather literate prostitute).

Its unnamed narrator is a young woman, a parson's daughter, who is engaged as governess to two angelic children at Bly, a remote English country house.

Without having worked as governesses themselves, Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon founded what would become Girton College, Cambridge, in 1869.

Wait – who were all these underemployed people in skirts trying desperately to earn their livings as governesses or servants and not finding nearly enough jobs to go round?

In Victorian Britain, educated women whose families were unable to support them – like Jane Eyre, or Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair – worked as governesses, teaching the children of wealthy families, and they were prized overseas.

Unmarried women who became pregnant had extremely limited choices and, for many, the only possible route was to give up their child to the Foundling hospital and then attempt to claw their way back to their "respectable" lives as governesses or servants.

Wollstonecraft was born in 1759, the daughter of a feckless drunk whose daughters were forced to find work as governesses, while her daughter grew up in a household that prided itself on its enlightened views on the autonomy of the individual and where Coleridge came to supper and read to them from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.