Jane Eyre
- Created by: Rhiannon Gillard2
- Created on: 15-10-15 10:16
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- The figure of the governess
- One of the most familiar figures in mid-Victorian life and literature.
- 1851- 25,000 women earned their living teaching and caring for other women's children
- Most governesses lived with their employers
- Paid a small salary on top of their lodging.
- 1840
- novelists included governess' into their novels, as villains and heroines
- Jane Eyre, the story of a governess who marries her employer
- Vanity Fair
- A young scheming governess who cheats her way through society
- Who became a governess?
- high class women taught to be 'ladies'
- too humiliating to work in a shop or factories
- Only possibility to become a teacher
- Small girls school
- In another woman's home
- Employed by the upper class
- By the beginning of the 19th century upper middle classes employed too
- hiring a governess became a status symbol
- high class women taught to be 'ladies'
- What did the governess teach?
- the three 'R's
- Reading, writing and arithmetic
- Conversation in French
- Use of the globe in geography
- History
- Key Acomplishments
- Drawing
- playing piano
- Deportment
- How to conduct ones self.
- the three 'R's
- One of the most familiar figures in mid-Victorian life and literature.
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