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1) Jane Eyre
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Language
English
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In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
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Language
English
Description
Katherine Ashley, the daughter of a poor country squire, happily secures an education and a place for herself in the Tudor court of Henry VIII. As a dying favor to the doomed Anne Boleyn, Kat becomes governess and surrogate-mother to the young Elizabeth Tudor ... ultimately emerging as the lifelong confidante to Queen Elizabeth I.
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English
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The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James. A masterpiece in ambivalence and the uncanny, The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young woman who is hired as governess to two seemingly innocent children in an isolated country house. As the tale progresses she begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor. Or does she? The story is so ambivalent and eerie, such a psychological thriller, that few can agree on
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Winterbourne looms over the Cornish cliffs with its turrets and gargoyles creating dark corners and even darker secrets. Alternating between present day and 1947, the stories of two women and their obsessions with Winterbourne and all its mysteries ultimately link them over time. Atmospheric and gloomy Winterbourne tends to enrapture the women that step into its halls. In 1947, Alice Miller is the governess to the family that resides there. The longer...
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Series
Publisher
Avon A
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Asked by her government to pose as a governess, Liberty Lane moves in with one of England's most powerful and influential families. What she discovers could rock the very foundations of the monarchy--and lead to the assassination of the newly crowned, 18-year-old Queen Victoria.
Author
Series
Unlikely duchesses volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Tessa James has worked and planned tirelessly to open her own millinery shop. All she needs now is a loan from the lord who sired and abandoned her. The only problem is, she doesn't even know his name. What's a woman to do to find him but enter the aristocratic world by becoming a governess? Guy Whitby, the new Duke of Carlin, has returned to London after years abroad to discover that his young daughter Sophy has become a wild-child known for scaring...
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