Sentence examples for governess at from inspiring English sources

He gathered them around him, with their governess, at his residence in Saint-Germain.

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

Joan Fontaine is the title chracter, the shy new governess at Thornfield, Rochester's grand but lonely estate.

Born 26 March 1923, Howard was educated by a governess at home in keeping with the time, while her two younger brothers were sent away to school.

Mrs. Schley died in 1950, her husband in 1952, and at the age of 11, their son was sent to live with his governess at 610 Park Avenue, two blocks south.

Mme de Maintenon, for instance, had been a pupil of the Ursuline nuns in Paris and then a governess at the court of Louis XIV before she was wedded to the king in 1684.

Akyab, Burma Munro was taught by governesses at home in north Devon due to poor health, then spent three years at Exmouth before attending Bedford College at 15.

Her parents sent her to the kind of Catholic girls' school that elite students used to joke about, as places "where one only goes to class once a week, and where the chorus of mothers and governesses at the back of the class whispers the right reply to the dear child".

His signatures were all there — hook-and-eye closures on fluted leather or python minidresses; fluid jackets; Jane Eyre silhouettes (for governesses at the Hard Rock Academy anyway); boned bustiers and hip-slung trousers; even two ball gowns trailing wisps of gothic romance — but they had the serenity that comes from not needing to be a buzz-making machine anymore.

Reitz received his earliest schooling at home, from a governess, and at a neighbouring farm.

Lehzen continued to regard Victoria with affection, and the queen wrote regularly to her former governess, weekly at first and later monthly at Lehzen's request.