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Index Governess

A governess is a woman employed as a private tutor, who teaches and trains a child or children in their home.[1]

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  1. 133 relations: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Agnes Grey, Agnes Porter, Anna and the King of Siam (novel), Anna Brownell Jameson, Anna Karenina, Anna Leonowens, Anne Brontë, Anne Hegerty, Anne Sullivan, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Boarding house, Boarding school, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland, Children's literature, Clara Oswald, Dark Shadows, Dark Shadows (film), Deafblindness, Diane Setterfield, Discworld, Doctor Who, Domestic worker, Dr. Watson, Drama (film and television), Edith Cavell, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Emma (novel), English Nanny & Governess School, Eva Ibbotson, Feminism, Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan, Francis Hare-Naylor, Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Gender marking in job titles, Georgiana Hare-Naylor, Gothic fiction, Governor, Governors of Hawaii (island), Great house, Harvey Pitcher, Helen Keller, Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester, Henry James, Henry VII of England, Historical drama, ... Expand index (83 more) »

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the debut novel of Irish writer James Joyce, published in 1916.

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey, A Novel is the first novel by English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of "Acton Bell"), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850.

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Agnes Porter

Agnes Porter (c.1752 – 1814) was a Scottish governess known for her diaries and surviving correspondence.

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Anna and the King of Siam (novel)

Anna and the King of Siam is a 1944 semi-fictionalized biographical novel by Margaret Landon.

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Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 179417 March 1860) was an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism.

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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina (p) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878.

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Anna Leonowens

Anna Harriette Leonowens (born Ann Hariett Emma Edwards; 5 November 1831 – 19 January 1915) was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist.

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Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë (commonly; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

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Anne Hegerty

Anne Solway Hegerty (born 14 July 1958) is an English professional quizzer and television personality.

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Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

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Boarding house

A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, and years.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

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Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland

Charlotte Florentia Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (née Lady Charlotte Florentia Clive; 12 September 1787 – 27 July 1866), was governess of the future Queen Victoria.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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Clara Oswald

Clara Oswald is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971.

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Dark Shadows (film)

Dark Shadows is a 2012 dark fantasy film based on the gothic television soap opera of the same name.

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Deafblindness

Deafblindness is the condition of little or no useful hearing and little or no useful sight.

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Diane Setterfield

Diane Setterfield (born 22 August 1964) is an English author whose 2006 debut novel, The Thirteenth Tale, became a ''New York Times'' No. 1 best-seller.

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Discworld

Discworld is a comic fantasy"Humorous Fantasy" in David Pringle, ed., The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy (pp.31-33).

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Domestic worker

A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands.

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Dr. Watson

John H. Watson, known as Dr.

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Drama (film and television)

In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Edith Cavell

Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022.

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Emma (novel)

Emma is a novel written by English author Jane Austen.

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English Nanny & Governess School

English Nanny & Governess School (ENGS), founded in 1984 by Sheilagh Roth provides childcare education and training.

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Eva Ibbotson

Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle Ibbotson (née Wiesner; 21 January 1925 – 20 October 2010) was an Austrian-born British novelist, known for her children's literature.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon

Françoise d'Aubigné (27 November 1635 – 15 April 1719), known first as Madame Scarron and subsequently as Madame de Maintenon, was a French noblewoman and the second wife of Louis XIV of France from 1683 until his death in 1715.

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Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan

Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan (5 October 1640 – 27 May 1707), commonly known as Madame de Montespan, was a French noblewoman and the most celebrated royal mistress of King Louis XIV.

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Francis Hare-Naylor

Francis Hare-Naylor (1753–1815) was an English historian, novelist and playwright.

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Gemma Doyle Trilogy

The Gemma Doyle Trilogy is a trilogy of fantasy novels by American writer Libba Bray.

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Gender marking in job titles

A gender-specific job title is a name of a job that also specifies or implies the gender of the person performing that job. Governess and gender marking in job titles are Gendered occupations.

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Georgiana Hare-Naylor

Georgiana Hare-Naylor born Georgiana Shipley (circa 1755–1806) was an English painter and art patron.

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Gothic fiction

Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting.

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Governor

A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative.

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Governors of Hawaii (island)

The Governor of Hawaii Island (Kiaaina o na Mokupuni o Hawaii) was the royal governor or viceroy of the Island of Hawaiokinai during the Kingdom of Hawaii.

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Great house

A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. Governess and great house are domestic work.

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Harvey Pitcher

Harvey Pitcher (born 26 August 1936) is an English writer, historian and translator.

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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.

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Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester

Henry Thomas Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester (29 July 1747 – 5 September 1802), known as Lord Stavordale from 1756 to 1776, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author.

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Henry VII of England

Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was King of England and Lord of Ireland from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509.

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Historical drama

A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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Holodeck

The Holodeck is a fictional device from the television franchise Star Trek which uses "holograms" (projected light and electromagnetic energy which create the illusion of solid objects) to create a realistic 3D simulation of a real or imaginary setting, in which participants can freely interact with the environment as well as objects and characters, and sometimes a predefined narrative.

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Homeschooling

Homeschooling or home schooling, also known as home education or elective home education (EHE), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school.

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House of Saud

The House of Al Saud (ʾĀl Suʿūd) is the ruling royal family of Saudi Arabia.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë.

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Jane Eyre (character)

Jane Eyre is the fictional heroine and the titular protagonist in Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name.

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Jane Gardiner

Jane Arden Gardiner (1758–1840) was a British schoolmistress and grammarian, and one of the earliest friends of Mary Wollstonecraft.

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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (French: ʒan maʁi ləpʁɛ̃s də bomɔ̃ ⓘ; 26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote the best-known version of Beauty and the Beast, an abridged adaptation of the 1740 fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.

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John of Gaunt

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was an English royal prince, military leader, and statesman.

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Journey to the River Sea

Journey to the River Sea is an adventure novel written by Eva Ibbotson, published by MacMillan in 2001.

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Julie Christie

Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) is a British actress.

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Kat Ashley

Katherine Ashley (née Champernowne; circa 1502 – 18 July 1565), also known as Kat Ashley or Astley, was the first close friend, governess, and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

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Katherine Swynford

Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (born Katherine de Roet, – 10 May 1403) was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the fourth (but third surviving) son of King Edward III.

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Kathryn Janeway

Kathryn Janeway is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

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Keʻelikōlani

Ruth Ke‘elikōlani, or sometimes written as Luka Ke‘elikōlani, also known as Ruth Ke‘elikōlani Keanolani Kanāhoahoa or Ruth Keanolani Kanāhoahoa Ke‘elikōlani (June 17, 1826 – May 24, 1883), was a member of the House of Kamehameha who served as Governor of the Island of Hawaiʻi and for a period, was the largest and wealthiest landowner in the Hawaiian Islands.

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Lady Margaret Beaufort

Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: or; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch.

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Lady's companion

A lady's companion was a woman of genteel birth who lived with a woman of rank or wealth as retainer. Governess and lady's companion are Gendered occupations.

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Landed gentry

The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.

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Libba Bray

Martha Elizabeth "Libba" Bray (March 11, 1964) is an American writer of young adult novels including the Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Going Bovine, and The Diviners.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louise, Baroness Lehzen

Johanna Clara Louise, Baroness von Lehzen (3 October 17849 September 1870) was the governess and later companion to Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

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Margaret King

Margaret King (1773–1835), also known as Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell and Mrs Mason, was an Anglo-Irish hostess, and a writer of female-emancipatory fiction and health advice.

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Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury (14 August 1473 – 27 May 1541), was the only surviving daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (a brother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III), by his wife Isabel Neville.

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Maria Flaxman

Maria Flaxman (1768 – 17 April 1833) was a British painter and illustrator.

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Maria von Trapp

Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS (26 January 1905 – 28 March 1987), often styled as “Baroness”, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers.

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Marie Curie

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

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Marion Crawford

Marion Kirk Buthlay CVO (née Crawford; 5 June 1909 – 11 February 1988) was a Scottish educator and governess to Princess Margaret and Princess Elizabeth (the future Queen Elizabeth II).

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Mary I of England

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.

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Mary Martha Sherwood

Mary Martha Sherwood (née Butt; 6 May 177522 September 1851) was a nineteenth-century English children's writer.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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Michel Faber

Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch-born writer of English-language fiction, including his 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White, and Under the Skin which was adapted for film by Jonathan Glazer, starring Scarlett Johansson.

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Middle class

The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status.

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Minor Sherlock Holmes characters

This article describes minor characters from the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and from non-canonical derived works.

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Miss Mary (1986 film)

Miss Mary is a 1986 drama film directed by María Luisa Bemberg and starring Julie Christie, Nacha Guevara and Eduardo Pavlovsky.

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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (novel)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a novel by Winifred Watson, first published in 1938 by Methuen & Co with illustrations by Mary Thomson.

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Miss Silver

Miss Silver is a fictional detective featured in 32 novels by British novelist Patricia Wentworth.

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Mongkut

Mongkut (มงกุฏ; 18 October 18041 October 1868) was the fourth king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IV.

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Nanny

A nanny is a person who provides child care. Governess and nanny are domestic work and Gendered occupations.

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Outback

The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia.

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Outback House

Outback House was an Australian historical reality TV series that originally aired on ABC TV in 2005.

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Painting

Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support").

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Patricia Wentworth

Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, née Elles; 15 October 1877 – 28 January 1961), known by pen name Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.

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Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon

Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (Margaret Rose; 21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002) was the younger daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Sandra Goldbacher

Sandra A. Goldbacher (born 1960) is a British film director, TV director, and screenwriter.

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Sarah Bennett

Sarah Bennett (4 March 1797 – 12 March 1861) was a British governess.

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Sarah Fielding

Sarah Fielding (8 November 1710 – 9 April 1768) was an English author and sister of the playwright, novelist and magistrate Henry Fielding.

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Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu (28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales, mystery novels, and horror fiction.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by British author Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet

Sir Mordaunt Martin, 4th Baronet (c. 1740 – 24 September 1815) was son of Sir Roger Martin, 3rd Baronet and Sophia Mordaunt.

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A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

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St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Moscow

St Andrew's Anglican Church in Moscow is the sole Anglican church in Moscow, and one of only three in Russia (The Anglican Church in St Petersburg was established 1723).

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Star Trek: Voyager

Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor.

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Stephen Dedalus

Stephen Dedalus is James Joyce's literary alter ego, appearing as the protagonist and antihero of his first, semi-autobiographic novel of artistic existence, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and as a major character in his 1922 novel Ulysses.

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Susan Sto Helit

Susan Sto Helit (also spelled Sto-Helit), once referred to as Susan Death, is a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels.

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Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author, humorist, and satirist, best known for the Discworld series of 41 comic fantasy novels published between 1983–2015, and for the apocalyptic comedy novel Good Omens (1990), which he co-wrote with Neil Gaiman.

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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches

"The Adventure of the Copper Beeches", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the last of the twelve collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

"The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905).

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The Chase (British game show)

The Chase is a British television quiz show broadcast on the ITV network, hosted by Bradley Walsh.

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The Chase Australia

The Chase Australia is an Australian television quiz show based on the British program of the same name.

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The Crimson Petal and the White

The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2002 novel by Michel Faber set in Victorian England.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Governess

The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher.

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The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy

The Governess; or, The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children.

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The King and I

The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker refers to a broadcast, a play and various other adaptations of Helen Keller's 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life.

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The Snowmen

"The Snowmen" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on Christmas Day 2012 on BBC One.

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The Sound of Music

The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.

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The Thirteenth Tale

The Thirteenth Tale (2006) by Diane Setterfield is a gothic suspense novel, the author's first published book.

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The three Rs

The three Rs are three basic skills taught in schools: reading, writing and arithmetic (the "R's", pronounced in the English alphabet "ARs", refer to "Reading, wRiting (where the W is unnecessary), and ARithmetic").

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The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly (January 27 – April 16, 1898).

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Tutoring

Tutoring is private academic help, usually provided by an expert teacher; someone with deep knowledge or defined expertise in a particular subject or set of subjects.

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Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas, subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

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Upper class

Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power.

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Vanity Fair (novel)

Vanity Fair is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator.

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Winifred Watson

Winifred Eileen Watson (20 October 1906 – 5 August 2002) was an English writer.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

Domestic work

Governesses

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governess

Also known as Gouvernante, Governesses.

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