The word "governess" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to female caretakers or teachers who are employed to educate and look after the children of wealthy families. For example, you could say, "In the 19th century, many aristocratic families employed a governess to teach their children."
Harriet longs to cast off her humdrum existence as a governess.
A pretty Irish governess and a glacial Teutonic blonde all add merrily to the mix.In this section Playboy of the eastern world Death in the afternoon An English scribbly bark Food for thought Correction: Georgian gold ReprintsA little more menace would be welcome, but Aly Monroe knows her Spain and wears her learning lightly.
Before following them, Cavell spent many lonely years as a governess, that last resort of the unmarried.
She liked to compare her suffering and genius to those of the "deformed" poet, Alexander Pope, and she became unnaturally sensitive to criticism of her work.Edith's governess, Helen Rootham, a talented musician with "a fervour for the arts", helped Edith to escape to London, Paris and Berlin and to establish herself as a writer and literary hostess.
Books and bombs Blame the governess No laughing matter Painting for numbers ReprintsHow was it that the little upper-class girls brought up in the Cotswolds with dogs and ponies and educated by a string of governesses moved into the limelight of the political extremes of the 1930s?
This was in 1919, when his father was Polish ambassador to the Court of St James, but the connection with Britain went back to his grandfather, who had served in the British army, and continued through the English governess who accompanied the family back to Poland and brought him up.
"THE chapter on the Fall of the Rupee you may omit," counselled Oscar Wilde's prudish governess in "The Importance of Being Earnest".
They are increasingly drawn to the tutoring and governess agencies scattered across the plusher parts of London.
Cavell had once been governess to a family there and spoke French fluently.
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.
A studious and bright girl, she was educated by her mother and a governess of ducal rank.
