A Governess Of Distinction

Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780795321023

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A Governess of Distinction by M. C. Beaton Pdf

A young governess in search of a dream life discovers that grim reality can bring true love in the New York Times–bestselling author’s Regency romance. Lord Percy Hunterdon has inherited a Gothic horror of a country estate along with a pair of teenage brats to marry off. To survive this disastrous fortune, he requires the expertise of a superior governess. When Jean Morrison discovers Lord Hunterdon's advertisement, dreams of an unmarried viscount and a magnificent castle dance in her head. She imagines him as Byronic and brooding, pacing the battlements in a black cloak and falling madly in love with her. It’s a rude awakening when Jean first sees the dank Trelawney Castle and encounters her vile new charges. Still, the golden hair and dancing eyes of her employer conjure up fantasies that are most unseemly for a governess of distinction.

Author : Marion Chesney
Publisher : Fawcett Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0449219941

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A Governess of Distinction by Marion Chesney Pdf

The inheritor of a vile Gothic estate and its two fifteen-year-old girls, Lord Percy hires a governess to ensure the girls' marriageability and discovers that he has become marriage-minded in the process. Original.

Author : M. C. Beaton
Publisher : RosettaBooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795321023

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A Governess of Distinction by M. C. Beaton Pdf

A young governess in search of a dream life discovers that grim reality can bring true love in the New York Times–bestselling author’s Regency romance. Lord Percy Hunterdon has inherited a Gothic horror of a country estate along with a pair of teenage brats to marry off. To survive this disastrous fortune, he requires the expertise of a superior governess. When Jean Morrison discovers Lord Hunterdon's advertisement, dreams of an unmarried viscount and a magnificent castle dance in her head. She imagines him as Byronic and brooding, pacing the battlements in a black cloak and falling madly in love with her. It’s a rude awakening when Jean first sees the dank Trelawney Castle and encounters her vile new charges. Still, the golden hair and dancing eyes of her employer conjure up fantasies that are most unseemly for a governess of distinction.

Author : Carolyn Vellenga Berman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801443849

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Creole Crossings by Carolyn Vellenga Berman Pdf

The character of the Creole woman--the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier--is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French, British, and American literature. In Creole Crossings, Carolyn Vellenga Berman examines the use of this recurring figure in such canonical novels as Jane Eyre, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Indiana, as well as in the antislavery discourse of the period. "Creole" in its etymological sense means "brought up domestically," and Berman shows how the campaign to reform slavery in the colonies converged with literary depictions of family life. Illuminating a literary genealogy that crosses political, familial, and linguistic lines, Creole Crossings reveals how racial, sexual, and moral boundaries continually shifted as the century's writers reflected on the realities of slavery, empire, and the home front. Berman offers compelling readings of the "domestic fiction" of Honoré de Balzac, Charlotte Brontë, Maria Edgeworth, Harriet Jacobs, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and others, alongside travel narratives, parliamentary reports, medical texts, journalism, and encyclopedias. Focusing on a neglected social classification in both fiction and nonfiction, Creole Crossings establishes the crucial importance of the Creole character as a marker of sexual norms and national belonging.

Author : Stephen Regan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415238285

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The Nineteenth-century Novel by Stephen Regan Pdf

Provides a valuable selection of nineteenth- century essays on the art of fiction. These contemporary essays are strategically placed alongside a selection of modern critical responses to twelve familiar nineteenth-century novels.

Author : Martha Vicinus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135045272

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Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) by Martha Vicinus Pdf

First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption and worship of the family hearth. Indeed, this model in some form was the ideal of all classes as the perfect lady’s only functions were marriage and procreation. The text offers a valuable insight into Victorian culture and society.

Author : Kathryn Hughes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1852853255

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The Victorian Governess by Kathryn Hughes Pdf

The figure of the governess is very familiar from nineteenth-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This book is the first rounded exploration of what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of previously undiscovered sources, Kathryn Hughes describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of governesses. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects. The governess provides a key to the central Victorian concept of the lady. Her education consisted of a series of accomplishments designed to attract a husband able to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed from birth. Becoming a governess was the only acceptable way of earning money open to a lady whose family could not support her in leisure. Being paid to educate another woman's children set in play a series of social and emotional tensions. The governess was a surrogate mother, who was herself childless, a young woman whose marriage prospects were restricted, and a family member who was sometimes mistaken for a servant.

Author : Helena Michie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195362992

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The Flesh Made Word by Helena Michie Pdf

Examining the works of such Victorian writers as the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, this study discusses codes and taboos about the female body and explores how female sexuality was represented in Victorian literary and non-literary genres, such as painting, etiquette books and pornography.

Author : Marguerite Countess of Blessington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : English fiction
ISBN : BSB:BSB10744885

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The Governess and the Belle of a Season by Marguerite Countess of Blessington Pdf

Author : Joseph Litvak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520074545

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Caught in the Act by Joseph Litvak Pdf

In Caught in the Act, Joseph Litvak reveals not only the surprising wealth of theatrical themes in the canonical nineteenth-century English novel, but also the complex and over-determined politics of this theatricality. Nineteenth-century fiction is typically understood as enshrining the bourgeois values of privacy, domesticity, subjectivity, and sincerity. But Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Henry James is in fact a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. These novels also display extravagant theatrical forms like travesty, transvestism, charade, and carnival. The theatricality enforces social norms at the same time that it provides ways for novelists to resist them. Litvak thus challenges recent interpretations of the nineteenth-century novel as a disciplinary apparatus. His approach encourages a rethinking of the genre and its varied cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence. In addition to a new interpretation, this rethinking offers a new, more frankly theatrical approach to interpretation itself. Litvak argues that the theatricality of the nineteenth-century novel anticipates the late twentieth-century strategies of feminist and gay critical performance.

Author : Robin Truth Goodman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816634874

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Infertilities by Robin Truth Goodman Pdf

Locating points of conjunction between queer, feminist, and postcolonial theories, Infertilities points to the role of lesbian representation and reproductive politics in ongoing critiques of globalism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313039317

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Silent Voices by Brenda Ayres Pdf

Some of the greatest English novels were written during the Victorian era, and many are still widely read and taught today. But many others written during that period have been neglected by scholars and modern readers alike. A number of these novels were written by women and were popular when published. Moreover, they reveal perspectives of 19th-century British culture not present in canonized works and therefore revise our understanding of Victorian life and attitudes. With the increasing interest in revising Victorian history and gender scholarship, especially through the rediscovery of lost texts written by women, this book is a timely and much needed study. The expert contributors to this volume argue the value of novels by such Victorian women writers as Grace Aguilar, Catherine Crowe, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Annie E. Holdsworth, Ella Hepworth Dixon, Flora Annie Steel, Anne Thackeray, Sarah Grand, Marie Corelli, and others. Most of the chapters address numerous works by a particular writer. Each focuses on different social issues as well, though most of them share an interest in gender politics. Topics discussed include a 19th-century Jewish novelist's navigation through Protestant spirituality, the relationship of noncanonical governess novels to class and gender issues, and forgotten works by women crime writers. Other chapters analyze how women writers impelled social reform and subverted patriarchally defined religious issues.

Author : Governess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590431063

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The Governess: a repertory of female education by Governess Pdf

Author : Jen Turano
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781441260505

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A Change of Fortune (Ladies of Distinction Book #1) by Jen Turano Pdf

Lady Eliza Sumner is on a mission. After losing her family, her fiance, and her faith, the disappearance of her fortune is the last straw. Now, masquerading as Miss Eliza Sumner, governess-at-large, she's determined to find the man who ran off with her fortune, reclaim the money, and head straight back to London. Much to Mr. Hamilton Beckett's chagrin, all the eyes of New York society--all the female ones, at least--are on him. Unfortunately for all the matchmaking mothers and eligible daughters, he has no plans to marry again, especially with his hands full keeping his business afloat and raising his two children alone. When Eliza's hapless attempts to regain her fortune put her right in Hamilton's path, sparks instantly begin to fly. The discovery of a common nemesis causes them to join forces, but with all their plans falling by the wayside and their enemies getting the better of them, it will take a riot of complications for Hamilton and Eliza to realize that God just might have had a better plan in mind all along. "Set in New York City circa 1880, Turano's historical romance has witty dialogue, a spunky heroine, a bounty of humor, and a fast-paced plot. There are wonderful secondary characters, too, including an ankle-biting boy, a relentlessly matchmaking mother, and a full cast of despicable villains. A Change of Fortune will make a delightful addition to any library." --Booklist (starred review) "Turano's charming story of losing and gaining both wealth and love in 1880s New York City will certainly please fans of witty and classic romance stories."--RT Book Review "[A] delightfully lighthearted debut novel."--Desert News

Author : Grace Burrowes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1941419755

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A Lady of True Distinction by Grace Burrowes Pdf

Hawthorne Dorning either finds a way to turn his family's botanical resources into a successful commercial venture, or the estate the Dornings call home could be broken up. Margaret Summerfield has put aside her passion for scent-making--permanently. Hawthorne needs her help, but how can he tempt Margaret to entangle herself with his dreams?