Download or read book My Dear Governess written by Edith Wharton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a treasure trove of 135 letters, written over a period of 42 years, from Edith Wharton to her teacher, considered a great find in the literary world, given that only three letters from the Age of Innocence author's childhood and early adulthood were thought to have survived.
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 Governess written by Ruth Brandon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane Austen in Emma, was to "retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever." However, in an ironic paradox, the governess, so marginal to her society, was central to its fiction-partly because governessing was the fate of some exceptionally talented women who later wrote novels based on their experiences. But personal experience was only one source, and writers like Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry James, and Jane Austen all recognized that the governess's solitary figure, adrift in the world, offered more novelistic scope than did the constrained and respectable wife. Ruth Brandon weaves literary and social history with details from the lives of actual governesses, drawn from their letters and journals, to craft a rare portrait of real women whose lives were in stark contrast to the romantic tales of their fictional counterparts. Governess will resonate with the many fans of Jane Austen and the Brontës, whose novels continue to inspire films and books, as well as fans of The Nanny Diaries and other books that explore the longstanding tension between mothers and the women they hire to raise their children.
Download or read book Governess Gone Rogue written by Laura Lee Guhrke and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear Lady Truelove . . . My twin brother and I need a new mother, though Papa insists he’ll never marry again. Must be nice, brainy, and fond of cats . . . Lady Truelove may be London’s most famous advice columnist, but James St. Clair, the Earl of Kenyon, knows his wild young sons need a tutor, not a new mother. They need a man tough enough to make his hellions tow the line, and James is determined to find one. Miss Amanda Leighton, former schoolteacher and governess, knows she has all the qualifications to be a tutor. And while female tutors are unheard of, Amanda isn’t about to lose the chance at her dream job because of pesky details like that. If Lord Kenyon insists on hiring a man, then she has only one option . . . Jamie isn’t sure what to make of his new employee, until he realizes the shocking truth—beneath the ill-fitting suits, his boys’ tutor is a woman. An unconventional, outspoken, thoroughly intriguing woman. Despite Amanda’s deception, he can’t dismiss her when his boys are learning so much. Yet Jamie, too, is learning surprising lessons—about desire, seduction, and passionate second chances . . .
Download or read book The Age of Desire written by Jennie Fields and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Paris Wife, a sparkling glimpse into the life of Edith Wharton and the scandalous love affair that threatened her closest friendship They say that behind every great man is a great woman. Behind Edith Wharton, there was Anna Bahlmann—her governess turned literary secretary and confidante. At the age of forty-five, despite her growing fame, Edith remains unfulfilled in a lonely, sexless marriage. Against all the rules of Gilded Age society, she falls in love with Morton Fullerton, a dashing young journalist. But their scandalous affair threatens everything in Edith’s life—especially her abiding ties to Anna. At a moment of regained popularity for Wharton, Jennie Fields brilliantly interweaves Wharton’s real letters and diary entries with her fascinating, untold love story. Told through the points of view of both Edith and Anna, The Age of Desire transports readers to the golden days of Wharton’s turn-of-the century world and—like the recent bestseller The Chaperone—effortlessly re-creates the life of an unforgettable woman.
Download or read book Taken by the Prince written by Christina Dodd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-04-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Victoria knows that Saber Lawrence is a renegade prince plotting to seize control of his country. But when Saber kidnaps Victoria to ensure her silence and vanquish her reserve, he finds that the proper English governess is not so easily seduced, unless Saber's willing to surrender something of his own-his heart.
Download or read book The Governess written by Marguerite Countess of Blessington and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Works written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to a Young Governess written by Susan F. Ridout and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revi Lona written by Frank Cowan and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lost race adventure novel set in the Antarctic, about a matriarchy amidst super-scientific technology and prehistoric monsters."--Locke (A spectrum of fantasy, page 59).
Download or read book She would be a governess written by She and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rules of Attraction written by Christina Dodd and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah Serrerington takes a job as a governess for a man who turns out to be a man she run away from nine years ago. Douglad Pippard is not surprised to see Hannah because he carefully planned a scheme to bring her back into his life.
Download or read book The Works of Thackeray written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Governess s Scandalous Marriage written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruined governess And a marriage born of scandal! When penniless Linnet Osborne takes a job as a governess, she’s shocked to discover her new employer is none other than Christian, Lord Blakely! They’d once shared a passionate embrace that almost forced them to marry. Christian is no less compelling now—so much so that Linnet is tempted to explore beyond those fleeting kisses… But that would mean they’d have to wed! “Helen did an excellent job with this ... Just the right mix of mystery and intrigue” — Goodreads on A Vow for an Heiress
Download or read book The Thousand and One Nights written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
