Other People’s Daughters

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Other People’s Daughters

Wydawnictwo: w_n

ISBN: 978-17-8022-248-6

ISBN bez myślników: 9781780222486

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2011-12-30

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

Other People’s Daughters

Wydawnictwo: w_n

ISBN: 978-07-5382-576-1

ISBN bez myślników: 9780753825761

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2009-03-19

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

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Other People’s Daughters

Ruth Brandon

Pierwsze wydanie: 2009-03-19

A rich and fascinating account of the lives of Victorian governesses, exploring nineteenth-century attitudes to women, family and class. If a nineteenth century lady had neither a husband to support her nor money of her own, almost her only recourse was to live in someone else's household and educate their children - in particular, their daughters. Marooned within the confines of other people's lives, neither servants nor family members, governesses occupied an uncomfortable social limbo. And being poor and insignificant, their papers were mostly lost. But a few journals and letters have come down to us, giving a vivid record of what it was to be a lone professional woman at a time when such a creature officially did not exist.