In the following essay, Peterson considers the role of the governess within the Victorian middle-class family, focusing primarily on the incongruencies inherent in the notion of “employed gentl...
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In the following essay, Bell focuses on what she describes as Jane's intense desire for independence, which the critic argues is the heroine's prime “social fault.”
Alth...
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In the following essay, Mangum explores how the grotesque, abusive, powerful, and gender-ambivalent governesses in Le Fanu's short stories and novels challenge traditional patriarchal authority...
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In the following essay, Hughes provides an overview of governess life, discussing the oftentimes tumultuous relationship between the governess and the mother, the bond a governess might share with her...
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In the following essay, Clarke offers a history of the Female Middle Class Emigration Society and an overview of the more than three hundred female emigrants who were sponsored by the Society and sent...
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In the following essay, Poovey focuses on the vast amount of attention given to the “plight” of the governess during the 1840s and 1850s, examining such factors as social stability, the ...
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In the following excerpt, Renton contends that regardless of the qualifications of the governess, most employers treated her with disrespect and considered her simply a “superior servant.ȁ...
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In the following excerpt, Renton discusses the difficulties governesses faced with their social standing within the family as well as frequently unfavorable working conditions and inadequate pay.
W...
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In the following excerpt, the journals and letters of late eighteenth-century governess Agnes Porter are discussed. Comparisons are made between Porter's experiences and those portrayed in Jane...
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Government forecasters minimally reduced their prediction for the Atlantic hurricane season Thursday, but said that up to nine hurricanes and up to 16 tropical storms are expected to form, still a ...
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LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The Scottish government said on
Tuesday it would review controversial plans by U.S. tycoon
Donald Trump to build a $2 billion golfing development in
Scotland after they w...
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A South African pathologist became the third doctor to publicly criticize the autopsy of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, whose death during last spring's World Cup prompted an international inv...
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Washington (dpa) - The United States is providing "real-time"
intelligence to Turkey to launch attacks on Kurdish rebels in
northern Iraq, the US daily Washington Post repor...
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The Wiccan pentacle has been added to the list of emblems allowed in national cemeteries and on goverment-issued headstones of fallen soldiers, according to a settlement announced Monday.A settleme...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - The verdict in the trial of eight men allegedly
involved in the so-called "tea house murder" of a Hong Kong
millionaire in 2002 has been delayed, a radio n...
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Kabul (dpa)- Taliban chief Mullah Omar called Saturday on his
fellow Afghans to wage a united jihad or "holy war" on western
soldiers in Afghanistan and urged them to prepar...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shareholders of both XM and
Sirius satellite radio Tuesday voted in favor of a planned
$4.8 billion merger that awaits approval by the federal
goverment. Shareholders of Siriu...
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The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself and selected a non-Indian artist to create it, a newspa...
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Critical Essay by M. Jeanne Peterson
Goverment lowers 2007 hurricane forecast
