Wollstonecraft's first novel, Mary - A Fiction was written during the summer of 1787 while serving as a governess in Ireland.
She became acquainted with a Miss Mason while teaching in Newington Green, whom she greatly respected, and she taught two girls named Mary and Caroline while she was a governess for the Kingsborough family in Ireland.
Composed while Wollstonecraft was a governess in Ireland, the novel was published in 1788 shortly after her summary dismissal and her momentous decision to embark on a writing career, a precarious and disreputable profession for women in 18th-century Britain.
She worked as a governess while undertaking studies in art, and first took classes at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in 1883, then again for a further term of study in 1888.
Although Van Gogh had the company of his sister Anna, who came to lodge with him while looking for work as a governess in England, he must have felt isolated.
Wuthering Heights comprised two volumes of the standard tripledecker format of the time, while Anne's tale of a governess, based on her own experiences of teaching variously appalling children in rich houses, made up the third.
While studying at home under a governess for six months, at Whitsun 1921 she took part as a dancer in a production of Purcell's semi-opera from 1690, Dioclesian, a version largely devised by Joseph.
She was in the orphanage for 12 years, latterly going outside to work as a governess's maid while still living in the institution.
She lived for a while with her brothers' families and then in 1942 took a position as a governess for a family in Connecticut.
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.
