The English Governess at the Siamese Court
Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Thailand
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Author : Anna Harriette Leonowens
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Thailand
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Author : Miles Underwood
Publisher : olympiapress.com
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596540002
Poet John Glassco wrote a great many unusual and eccentric works during his career, and ranks among the finest Canadian authors of the 20th Century. This particular title, published under the pseudoym "Miles Underwood," has achieved status as a must-have in your BDSM library. It is the account of Harriet Marwood, summoned to tutor the son of a 19th Century Victorian businessman, Arthur Lovel, whose wife has died, in the proper way to conduct himself, and to quit what is wonderfully termed "self-effacing." Our Ms. Marwood soon takes over the house, leaving the businessman free to consort with Kate, his whore, and the boy, young Richard, at her mercy, where he most wants to be.
Author : Ruth Brandon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802779751
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.
Author : E. P. HAMILTON
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 1861
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Author : Mary Thorp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0190276703
Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919. This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict.
Author : Rachel MACCRINDELL
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Page : pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1858
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Author : Rachel M'Crindell
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,91 MB
Release : 1844
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Author : Wendy Holden
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593101332
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
Author : Miles UNDERWOOD (pseud. [i.e. John Glassco.])
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Page : 187 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Wilhelmina (Queen of the Netherlands)
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,74 MB
Release : 2017
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ISBN : 9789462984387
A remarkable collection of letters from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880-1962) and her governess, Elizabeth Saxton Winter (1855-1936), an Englishwoman.