Sentence examples for governess to from inspiring English sources
Cavell had once been governess to a family there and spoke French fluently.
In December 1836 Snow moved to Kirtland and became a boarding governess to Joseph Smith's children.
"It was up to the English governess to run herself ragged keeping it clean".
Nobody faulted Charlotte Brontë for using her experiences as a governess to write "Jane Eyre.
The daughter of an impoverished Austrian field marshal, she was a governess to the wealthy Suttner family from 1873.
Deborah Kerr stars as the nervous governess to a pair of odd children; shot by future horror director Freddie Francis.
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).
Born out of wedlock to the comtesse d'Albon, she was sent to convent school and made governess to the marquise de Vichy, her mother's legitimate daughter.
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.
She discovered her affinity for science in her early twenties and gravitated toward medical research because she had lost a beloved governess to cancer.
