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1) Agnes Grey
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English
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Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
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Believing herself guilty of a crime, Olivia Keene flees her home, eventually stumbling upon a grand estate where an elaborate celebration is in progress. But all is not as joyous as it seems. Lord Bradley has just learned a terrible secret, which, if exposed, will change his life forever. When he glimpses a figure on the grounds, he fears a spy or thief has overheard his devastating news. He is stunned to discover the intruder is a scrap of a woman...
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English
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"Governess Juliana Ashbourne has dreams reaching far beyond the confines of her current position, hoping to someday establish her own school for girls. When she inherits a fortune from her late grandfather, she is shocked to learn that "someday" may soon be within reach. However, there is one condition: she must spend a month at the estate of Havenfield--with the very family who disowned her mother. Intent on securing the money she needs to start...
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Pink Carnation novels volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Veteran governess Laura Grey joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling adventures in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of André Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police.
At first the job is as lively as Latin, but Laura begins to notice Jaouen's increasingly strange behavior. As Laura edges
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The governor has disbanded the Colonial Assembly, removing the last shred of representative government from American shores. The Rebel Mechanics and their magister allies can't let the Empire get away with that. The time has come to act.But to truly start turning the wheels of revolution, they need popular support from ordinary laborers, housewives, students, and the middle class--people outside the rebel movements. That's a job for Verity Newton,...
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The Smythe-Smith quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Anne Wynter, a governess with some dark secrets in her past, is tempted by the dangerously handsome Daniel Smith-Smythe, Earl of Winstead, who relentlessly pursues her despite her social station.
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Sweetwater Books, an imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Harriet Shore flees her small seaside town to become a governess in London. When the Duchess of Dorset notices Harriet's resemblance to her own daughter, Virginia, Harriet takes on a double life that quickly becomes complicated.
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Backwoods brides volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Addie McRae accepts a job as governess to young Cedric Whitfield, but she has no idea what lies ahead--especially when a string of attempted robberies and a kidnapping threaten the peace of the Whitfield household in Marshall, Texas.
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2010
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English
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Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father...
12) Houseboat
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
13) Jane Eyre
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English
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
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Sweetwater Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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After finding herself destitute, Sophia Cavanaugh sees only one course open to her, that of becoming a governess. She finds a champion in Charles Mortimer, and is provided a position by his mother. He captures her heart, but are the feelings mutual?
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Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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Beautiful and refined Emily Harris, hoping to make a mark on the world before settling down with a husband and family, accepts a job teaching two young girls on an isolated Idaho ranch, and determines to prove her worth in spite of the misgivings of rancher Gavin Blake who doubts Emily will be able to tolerate life in the rugged high country.
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Fawcett Crest
Pub. Date
1983, c1958
Edition
1st Ballantine Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Linda Martin, an English governess at the French Chateau Valmy, is convinced that the accident which nearly killed her young charge, Comte Philippe de Valmy, was not an accident at all.
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Ladies of Summerhill volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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The chance to break the big story is all Charlotte needs to secure her future. But when the truth comes outùit may cost her the love of her life.
Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900ùa glamorous resort town where the rich and famous go to see and be seen.
Charlotte Hale isn't part of that world. She's a working girl, a secretary for a local newspaper, who dreams of becoming a real reporter. When her boss offers
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Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Miss Penelope Lumley assuages the disappointments of her sixteenth birthday by accepting an invitation to speak at her former school, the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, which will be closed if she cannot prove the academic progress of her incorrigible charges.
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Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
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Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.
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