Download or read book The Governess s Secret Longing written by Elizabeth Beacon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prim and professional But with a forbidden yearningFor governess Viola Yelverton, the only man who’s stirred in her a passionate desire is her rakish employer, Sir Harry Marbeck! Maintaining a cool detachment is easy in the schoolroom—but when one of his wards gets sick, a bedside vigil reveals a warmer side to Harry. With the passion now blazing, has Viola just taken the biggest gamble of her life—one where she could lose her secret love and her livelihood? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. The Yelverton Marriages Book 1: Marrying for Love or Money? Book 2: Unsuitable Bride for a Viscount Book 3: The Governess’s Secret Longing

Download or read book The Little Princesses written by Marion Crawford and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-04-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the childhoods and early adulthoods of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, as told by one of their primary caregivers, offers insight into early twentieth-century British royal life.

Download or read book Breaking the Governess s Rules written by Michelle Styles and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How delightful to meet you again, Miss Louisa Sibson.' Jonathon, Lord Chesterholm's eyes bored holes into Louisa Sibson's back. The former fiancée he's thought dead is very much alive… Louisa has rebuilt her life, after being dishonourably dismissed from her post as governess for allowing Jonathon to seduce her. Now Louisa lives by a rulebook of morals and virtue—the devastating Lord Chesterholm will not ruin her again! But Jonathon will get to the bottom of Louisa's disappearance—and he'll enjoy breaking a few of her rules along the way…!

Download or read book An Unsuitable Governess written by Violet King and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparks fly when Miss Elizabeth Bennet takes work as a governess at Pemberley.Will deceptions, highwaymen, and a rambunctious eleven-year-old girl bring Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy together or tear them apart?After rejecting Mr. Collins proposal, Miss Elizabeth Bennet assumes the persona of a widow and goes to Lambton to find work. But when she befriends Mr. Darcy's half-sister Rose and becomes her governess, she must contend with Mr. Darcy, a man she wishes to despise, and Col. Richard Fitzwilliam, a man she wants to love but cannot. With Rose's help, will Elizabeth find the strength to follow her heart?Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy would sooner face bandits than return to Pemberley and deal with his stepmother -- alas, he must do both. And when he discovers Miss Elizabeth Bennet in his home, serving as governess to his half-sister Rose, things go from bad to worse. Col. Fitzwilliam is falling for her. Mr. Darcy is too -- or would be, if Miss Elizabeth were at all suitable. Will Mr. Darcy stop denying his heart before his cousin steals Elizabeth's?Find out in An Unsuitable Governess, a standalone Pride and Prejudice novel of 64,000 words.Warning! This book contains: one not at all wicked stepmother, one 100% wicked band of highwaymen, one rambunctious eleven-year-old, one deceptive governess with a heart of gold, one love-stricken colonel, one handsome gentleman in denial of his true feelings, one found treasure, and two happily ever afters to set your heart aflutter.

Download or read book The Victorian Governess written by Kathryn Hughes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Mr Darcy s Decision written by Juliette Shapiro and published by Ulysses Press. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sequel to "Pride and Prejudice," Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy find their lives turned upside down when Elizabeth's sister Lydia returns with alarming news that threatens the newlyweds' life together.

Download or read book Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue written by Yumna Siddiqi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives of intrigue to endorse imperial rule, postcolonial writers turn the generic conventions and topography of the fiction of intrigue on its head, launching a critique of imperial power that makes the repressive and emancipatory impulses of postcolonial modernity visible. Siddiqi devotes the first part of her book to the colonial fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan, in which the British regime's preoccupation with maintaining power found its voice. The rationalization of difference, pronouncedly expressed through the genre's strategies of representation and narrative resolution, helped to reinforce domination and, in some cases, allay fears concerning the loss of colonial power. In the second part, Siddiqi argues that late twentieth-century South Asian writers also underscore the state's insecurities, but unlike British imperial writers, they take a critical view of the state's authoritarian tendencies. Such writers as Amitav Ghosh, Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy, and Salman Rushdie use the conventions of detective and spy fiction in creative ways to explore the coercive actions of the postcolonial state and the power dynamics of a postcolonial New Empire. Drawing on the work of leading theorists of imperialism such as Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, and the Subaltern Studies historians, Siddiqi reveals how British writers express the anxious workings of a will to maintain imperial power in their writing. She also illuminates the ways South Asian writers portray the paradoxes of postcolonial modernity and trace the ruses and uses of reason in a world where the modern marks a horizon not only of hope but also of economic, military, and ecological disaster.

Download or read book My Dear Governess written by Irene Goldman-Price and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting archive came to auction in 2009: the papers and personal effects of Anna Catherine Bahlmann (1849–1916), a governess and companion to several prominent American families. Among the collection were one hundred thirty-five letters from her most famous pupil, Edith Newbold Jones, later the great American novelist Edith Wharton. Remarkably, until now, just three letters from Wharton's childhood and early adulthood were thought to survive. Bahlmann, who would become Wharton's literary secretary and confidant, emerges in the letters as a seminal influence, closely guiding her precocious young student's readings, translations, and personal writing. Taken together, these letters, written over the course of forty-two years, provide a deeply affecting portrait of mutual loyalty and influence between two women from different social classes. This correspondence reveals Wharton's maturing sensibility and vocation, and includes details of her life that will challenge long-held assumptions about her formative years. Wharton scholar Irene Goldman-Price provides a rich introduction to My Dear Governess that restores Bahlmann to her central place in Wharton's life.

Download or read book Other People s Daughters written by Ruth Brandon and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and fascinating account of the lives of Victorian governesses, exploring nineteenth-century attitudes to women, family and class. If a nineteenth century lady had neither a husband to support her nor money of her own, almost her only recourse was to live in someone else's household and educate their children - in particular, their daughters. Marooned within the confines of other people's lives, neither servants nor family members, governesses occupied an uncomfortable social limbo. And being poor and insignificant, their papers were mostly lost. But a few journals and letters have come down to us, giving a vivid record of what it was to be a lone professional woman at a time when such a creature officially did not exist.

Download or read book The Hidden Heart written by Candace Camp and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author, a widower takes a young girl and her nanny under his protection in this suspenseful Regency romance. Fall back in love with the Aincourts in this fan-favorite historical romance, originally published in 2002. His life in ruins, Richard, Duke of Cleybourne, returns to his country estate to recover from a tragic loss he’d suffered four years earlier. However, his solitude is interrupted by the arrival of Miss Jessica Maitland, a flame-haired governess who presents her charge, Gabriella, as Richard’s new ward. As if their unwelcome presence weren’t bad enough, Jessica also reveals that Gabriella’s life is in danger. Someone is after the young girl’s fortune—someone who might be closer than Richard could ever guess. And even with danger mounting, Richard finds it harder and harder to deny his growing feelings for Jessica. When a raging snowstorm brings an odd assortment of guests to Cleybourne Castle, violence strikes, and Richard and Jessica find themselves on the hunt for a killer. Can they unravel the darkness at the heart of Cleybourne, before it’s too late?

Download or read book The Governess s Secret Baby written by Janice Preston and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beauty who tamed the beast… New governess Grace Bertram will do anything to get to know her young daughter, Clara. Even if it means working for Clara’s guardian, the reclusive and scarred Nathaniel, Marquess of Ravenwell! Nathaniel believes no woman could ever love a monster like him, until Grace seems to look past his scars to the man beneath… But when he discovers Grace is Clara’s mother, Nathaniel questions his place in this torn-apart family. Could there be a Christmas happy-ever-after for this beauty and the beast?

Download or read book The Turn of the Screw written by Douglas Jones and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Aincourt Series Complete Collection written by Candace Camp and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 1512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Aincourts trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Candace Camp, collected here! So Wild a Heart Devin Aincourt, Earl of Ravenscar, is content to live out his life in a thoroughly hedonistic manner. Until his mother asks him to make a bold move to restore the family name and fortune: marry a rich American heiress, Miranda, who surprises Dev with plans of her own. The Hidden Heart With his life in ruins, Richard, Duke of Cleybourne, returns to his country estate to deal with the tragic loss he’s suffered. His plans, however, are interrupted by the arrival of Miss Jessica Maitland, a feisty, flame-haired governess who claims that her charge, Gabriella, is his new ward. When a raging storm strands the guests at the estate, Jessica and Richard find themselves on the trail of a murderer. Secrets of the Heart Rachel Aincourt despairs that she has married a cold, loveless, enigmatic man in Michael Trent, Earl of Westhampton. But she’s wrong: behind Michael’s proper demeanor lies a man who thrives on danger intrigue, and Rachel is soon pulled into Michael’s schemes—and into his heart.

Download or read book The Turn of the Screw written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new adaptation of Henry James's classic novella adapted for the stage by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. This adaptation was first staged at the Almeida Theatre, London, in January 2013.

Download or read book Mr Darcy s Obsession written by Abigail Reynolds and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more he tries to stay away from her, the more his obsession grows... What if...Elizabeth Bennet was more unsuitable for Mr. Darcy than ever... Mr. Darcy is determined to find a more suitable bride. But then he learns that Elizabeth is living in London in reduced circumstances, after her father's death robs her of her family home... What if...Mr. Darcy can't Help himself from see king her out... He just wants to make sure she's alright. But once he's seen her, he feels compelled to talk to her, and from there he's unable to fight the overwhelming desire to be near her, or the ever-growing mutual attraction that is between them... What if...Mr. Darcy's intentions were shockingly dishonorable... "[Reynolds] has creatively blended a classic love story with a saucy romance novel." —Austenprose "Developed so well that it made the age-old storyline new and fresh...Her writing gripped my attention and did not let go."—The Romance Studio "The style and wit of Ms. Austen are compellingly replicated...spellbinding. Kudos to Ms. Reynolds!" —A Reader's Respite

Download or read book The Victorian Governess Novel written by Cecilia Wadsö Lecaros and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. Based on a comprehensive set of nineteenth-century novels, governess manuals, articles and biographical material, it shows how the Victorian Governess novel made up a vital part of the governess debate, as well as of the more general debate on female education.

Download or read book The Turn of the Screw written by Jeffrey Hatcher and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Based on the provocative tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this adaptation gives the famous story yet another turn of its own. A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned c