Sentence examples for governess teaching from inspiring English sources

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However, he becomes all too human and prone to self-doubt when he meets Anna (played by Deborah Kerr), a "proper" English widow who has traveled to Siam to serve as his children's governess, teaching them the ways of the Western world.

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Judith was taken on by the family of an American journalist, whose governess taught her English.

Ms. Goldbacher, 41, a British director of commercials and television documentaries who made her feature debut in 1998 with "The Governess," taught Ms. Williams the sober-faced, robotic dancing of her era.

Until he was nine, Oscar Wilde was educated at home, where a French bonne and a German governess taught him their languages.

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.

Along with her strange governess who teaches in the dark and some loyal attic club members, Ada must save whatever is hiding in her home.

He moved his family to Karachi, and there Benazir, Mir Murtaza, Sanam, and Shah Nawaz grew up under the watchful eye of an English governess, who taught them table manners, netball, and cricket, and recited nursery rhymes.

She later hired Polish governesses to teach her daughters her native language, and sent or took them on visits to Poland.

Fever by the late Reza de Wet charts the isolation and fear of a Victorian governess who finds herself teaching in the dry, desert land of the Karoo.

Director: Walter Lang Entertainment grade: C+ History grade: D+ In 1862, King Mongkut Rama IV of Siam (now Thailand) employed governess Anna Leonowens to teach English to his harem and his dozens of children.

Elliot F. Shepard, owner of the vanished journal Mail & Express, sought the services of a governess who could teach several languages and give lessons in drawing and pianoforte, he specified that, "she must be a follower of the meek and gentle Jesus and willing to have her meals with the servants".

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