Books and Things | Real Life Rules for Victorian Governesses @katiejlumsden | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 days ago.
In which I tell you how governesses were meant to behave in the Victorian period . . .

These quotes are from: Hints to Governesses by one of themselves (1856) and Governess Life, its Trials, Duties and Encouragements (1849) by Maurice, Mary Atkinson

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My debut novel, The Secrets of Hartwood Hall, is publishing 28 February 2023 in the US and 30 March 2023 in the UK. It is a gothic historical novel about a governess and what happens when she takes a new position at a mysterious country house . . .

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