Download or read book The Young Governess in Egypt written by Phoebe Gardener and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited sequel to the Past Venus bestseller, The Young Governess, has finally arrived. Whilst on holiday in Egypt with her 'lady's maid' Kate Spencer is kidnapped along with a virginal young English couple. The group is sold to a white Turkish slaver with an insatiable desire for defloration. The only way they will escape is by enduring humiliating sexual ordeals. Will the slaver ever be satisfied, and will the group ever discover the evil conspiracy that has led them to this situation?
Download or read book The Governesses written by Anne Serre and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publishers Weekly Best Books in Fiction 2018 The sensational US debut of a major French writer—an intense, delicious meringue of a novella In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children’s education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book’s “deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader.” Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.
Download or read book The Young Governess written by Phoebe Gardener and published by . This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First novel in the Past Venus Historical series - stories set in a bygone age written by contemporary authors. At first Kate Spencer's new job seems perfect for a young spinster with ambitions of matrimony: governess to a young girl in the large country house of rich aristocrats. Appearances are deceptive, however: she is caught in a fast tightening net of sexual exploitation and physical humiliation at the hands of her ruthless employers. Kate realises that she must outwit the decadent Sir Bradley Fordham and his wife if she is not to be sold as a sex slave.
Download or read book The Young Governess a Tale for Girls written by F. Paterson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Download or read book The Young Governess A Tale for Girls written by Governess and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lynn Paula Russell s the Young Governess written by Lynn Paula Russell and published by ER Books. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Spencer is a young and innocent governess in search of matrimony. Seemingly, she has landed the perfect job for a young spinster, though she soon discovers that appearances can be deceptive. Kate ends up caught in a fast and tightening net of sexual exploitation and physical humiliation at the hands of her supposedly respectable, yet ruthless employers. Facing the dismal prospect of being prostituted or sold as a sex slave, our heroine lauches a valiant quest to outwit her decadent employers, allowing her to escape and continue her search for marital security.
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 The young governess By the author of Gerty and May written by Henry Courteney Selous and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Royal Governess written by Wendy Holden and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the childhood years of Queen Elizabeth II, one of the most famous women who ever lived, a young governess helped shape her into the icon the world knows today. In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives. At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to take the princesses on tube trains, swimming at public baths, and on joyful Christmas shopping trips at Woolworth’s. From her ringside seat at the heart of the British monarchy she witnesses the trauma of the Abdication, the glamour of the Coronation, the onset of World War II. She steers the little princesses through it all, as close as a mother. As Hitler’s planes fly over Windsor, she shelters her charges in the castle dungeons (not far from where the Crown Jewels are hidden in a biscuit tin). Afterwards, she is present when Elizabeth first sets eyes on Philip, her future husband. But being beloved confidante to the Windsor family comes at huge personal cost. Marriage, children, her own views: all are compromised by proximity to royal glory. In this majestic story of love, sacrifice and allegiance, bestselling novelist Holden brings to life the early years before Queen Elizabeth II became monarch. “This captivating page-turner whisks readers back in time to Buckingham Palace in 1933…A majestic story that delves into the incredible life of Queen Elizabeth II before she took her place on the throne.”—Woman’s World
Download or read book The Silent Governess written by Julie Klassen and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dangerous secret...an overheard conversation...and a woman who is not what she seems. Will hidden pasts ruin their hope of finding love?
Download or read book The Governess written by Sarah Fielding and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Governess, or The Little Female Academy is a book about a boarding school run by Mrs Teachum.[3] The story takes place over ten days, not including some initial background information, and an epilogue. On each day, except for the first, all or part of a text is read aloud to the students by Miss Jenny Peace. Afterward, one or more of the pupils is physically described, followed by the recording their life story. These are written so as to appear to have been spoken by each respective girl, and recorded by Miss Jenny. Each session of reading is capped by an appearance from Mrs Teachum, who explains the lesson that should be taken from each experience. Much emphasis is given to the importance of reading and to reflecting on the reading.
Download or read book Mary Sefton or The young governess written by Mary Sefton (fict. name.) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Governess Debut written by Wendy May Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Orphaned and destitute, gently born Felicia Scott must find a way to keep a roof over her head. No longer able to enter the marriage mart, but also not of the servant class, the only option is to fing a position as governess. After the spoilt seven year old daughter has sent off three governesses in the 18 months since her mother died, the Earl of Standish doubts the young inexperienced Miss Scott could possible manage the position. Since he's desperate and she comes so highly recommended, the earl agrees to give her a chance. Much to everyone's amazement, the beautiful young governess succeeds where the others had failed. The entire household benefits from the calm, included the jaded earl."--Cover.
Download or read book Ellinor or The young governess A moral tale By Mrs C Mathews written by Eliza Kirkham MATHEWS and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Young Governess A Tale for Girls By the Author Of Gerty and May i e Henry Courtney Selous With Illustrations by H Paterson written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 The Lady s Home Magazine of Literature Art and Fashion written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
