governess

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• To protect them, the babies were sent away far from court to lesser royal homes to be raised not by their parents but by a squad of nurses, governesses and tutors.

• So far, most of this builds on the novel, except that our governess, Dani, has a guilt-ridden history revealed early on — she keeps seeing the ghost of her dead ex-fiancee.

• Governess: A young woman who was typically employed by wealthy families to care for and privately educate their children.

• Victoria Winters: An orphan who is engaged by the Collins family as a governess for young David Collins.

• The girl would become Victoria Winters, an orphan hired by the Collins Family as a governess for the troubled young heir.

• A victim of the waning governess trade, Miss Ellington must take a position at the crumbling Scroop Hall.

• Later she got a job as governess to the illegitimate children that Louis XIV had fathered with another mistress.

• The Princess still kept her eyes fixed on Louis, while, in a suppressed and unsteady voice, she answered her governess.

• The governess is Swiss and for one week she talks nothing but French and for another nothing but German.

• The child who has got languages from its governess, therefore, marks time—that is to say, wastes time in these subjects at school.

• A real improvement in the boys character dated from the arrival of a new , Nastasia Petrov.