Sentence examples for be a governess from inspiring English sources

Meg, the oldest, goes off to be a governess - very unhappily.

Always to be a governess and always to be in love is a serious limitation in a world which is full, after all, of people who are neither one nor the other".

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray It seems to be Becky Sharp's fate to be a governess: she is clever, educated and impecunious, so she takes a job in the household of Sir Pitt Crawley.

When Maria leaves the convent to be a governess to the Von Trapp children, she's apprehensive.

So there's a nanny, and eventually there will be a governess looking after baby George.

The daughter of an impoverished Austrian field marshal, she was a governess to the wealthy Suttner family from 1873.

His mother, who came from Ireland, was a governess to the children of John E. Roosevelt, a cousin of President Theodore Roosevelt.

She graduated from the Hartford Female Seminary in 1843 and for some years thereafter taught school and was a governess in Burlington, New Jersey.

Her 16-year-old daughter Meg is a governess to a wealthy family and her 15-year-old sister Jo is a companion for a rich old relative.

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.

Sarah Farquar, who arrived at the hospital with her child in 1854, was different from many, in that she was a governess and so was able to write her own petition.