My Dear Governess
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Author |
: Edith Wharton |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 330 |
Release |
: 2012-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300169898 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300169892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Dear Governess by : Edith Wharton
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.
Author |
: Irene Goldman-Price |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2012-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300183382 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300183380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Dear Governess by : Irene Goldman-Price
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.
Author |
: Jennie Fields |
Publisher |
: Penguin Group |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2013-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143123286 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143123289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Age of Desire by : Jennie Fields
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.
Author |
: Laura Lee Guhrke |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2019-01-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062853707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062853708 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Governess Gone Rogue by : Laura Lee Guhrke
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 . . .
Author |
: Ruth Brandon |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 315 |
Release |
: 2011-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780802779755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0802779751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Governess by : Ruth Brandon
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 |
: Christina Dodd |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0739415808 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780739415801 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rules of Attraction by : Christina Dodd
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.
Author |
: Marguerite Countess of Blessington |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 1839 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCLA:L0071579122 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Governess by : Marguerite Countess of Blessington
Author |
: Edith Wharton |
Publisher |
: Scribner |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2019-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501182839 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501182838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selected Poems of Edith Wharton by : Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her novel The Age of Innocence, was also a brilliant poet. This revealing collection of 134 poems brings together a fascinating array of her verse—including fifty poems that have never before been published. The celebrated American novelist and short story writer Edith Wharton, author of The House of Mirth, Ethan Frome, and the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Innocence, was also a dedicated, passionate poet. A lover of words, she read, studied, and composed poetry all of her life, publishing her first collection of poems at the age of sixteen. In her memoir, A Backward Glance, Wharton declared herself dazzled by poetry; she called it her “chiefest passion and greatest joy.” The 134 selected poems in this volume include fifty published for the first time. Wharton’s poetry is arranged thematically, offering context as the poems explore new facets of her literary ability and character. These works illuminate a richer, sometimes darker side of Wharton. Her subjects range from the public and political—her first published poem was about a boy who hanged himself in jail—to intimate lyric poems expressing heartbreak, loss, and mortality. She wrote frequently about works of art and historical figures and places, and some of her most striking work explores the origins of creativity itself. These selected poems showcase Wharton’s vivid imagination and her personal experience. Relatively overlooked until now, her poetry and its importance in her life provide an enlightening lens through which to view one of the finest writers of the twentieth century.
Author |
: Wendy Holden |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 450 |
Release |
: 2021-02-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780593101339 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0593101332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Royal Governess by : Wendy Holden
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 |
: William Makepeace Thackeray |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 698 |
Release |
: 1873 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HWP3J5 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (J5 Downloads) |
Synopsis Works by : William Makepeace Thackeray