Author: Essie SummersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780733503481
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
High-Country Governess
Author: Essie SummersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780263118476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
High-country Governess
Author: Essie SummersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780263756920
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Silent Governess
Author: Julie KlassenPublisher: Bethany House
ISBN: 0764207075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A dangerous secret...an overheard conversation...and a woman who is not what she seems. Will hidden pasts ruin their hope of finding love?
MacBride of Tordarroch bk. 10 High country governess
Author: Essie SummersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780733521782
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Governess of Highland Hall
Author: Carrie TuranskyPublisher: Multnomah
ISBN: 1601424973
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Worlds lie between the marketplaces of India and the halls of a magnificent country estate like Highland Hall. Will Julia be able to find her place when a governess is neither upstairs family nor downstairs help? Missionary Julia Foster loves working alongside her parents, ministering and caring for young girls in India. But when the family must return to England due to illness, she readily accepts the burden for her parents’ financial support. Taking on a job at Highland Hall as governess, she quickly finds that teaching her four privileged, ill-mannered charges at a grand estate is more challenging than expected, and she isn’t sure what to make of the estate’s preoccupied master, Sir William Ramsey. Widowed and left to care for his two young children and his deceased cousin Randolph’s two teenage girls, William is consumed with saving the estate from the financial ruin. The last thing he needs is any distraction coming from the kindhearted-yet-determined governess who seems to be quietly transforming his household with her persuasive personality, vibrant prayer life, and strong faith. While both are tending past wounds and guarding fragile secrets, Julia and William are determined to do what it takes to save their families—common ground that proves fertile for unexpected feelings. But will William choose Julia’s steadfast heart and faith over the wealth and power he needs to secure Highland Hall’s future?
Taken by the Prince
Author: Christina DoddPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101513659
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Only Victoria knows that Saber Lawrence is a renegade prince plotting to seize control of his country. But when Saber kidnaps Victoria to ensure her silence and vanquish her reserve, he finds that the proper English governess is not so easily seduced, unless Saber's willing to surrender something of his own-his heart.
The Queen's Governess
Author: Karen S. HarperPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399156182
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Befriending the doomed Queen Anne Boleyn after the downfall of Cromwell, squire's daughter Kat Ashley agrees to become the governess of the young Elizabeth Tudor and endures the exiled princess's harsh early years before her coronation, after which Kat becomes a trusted confidante.
The Sketch
Author: How I Became a Governess
Author: GovernessGoverness
Author: Ruth BrandonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779751
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Between the 1780s and the end of the nineteenth century, an army of sad women took up residence in other people's homes, part and yet not part of the family, not servants, yet not equals. To become a governess, observed Jane Austen in Emma, was to "retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever." However, in an ironic paradox, the governess, so marginal to her society, was central to its fiction-partly because governessing was the fate of some exceptionally talented women who later wrote novels based on their experiences. But personal experience was only one source, and writers like Wilkie Collins, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry James, and Jane Austen all recognized that the governess's solitary figure, adrift in the world, offered more novelistic scope than did the constrained and respectable wife. Ruth Brandon weaves literary and social history with details from the lives of actual governesses, drawn from their letters and journals, to craft a rare portrait of real women whose lives were in stark contrast to the romantic tales of their fictional counterparts. Governess will resonate with the many fans of Jane Austen and the Brontës, whose novels continue to inspire films and books, as well as fans of The Nanny Diaries and other books that explore the longstanding tension between mothers and the women they hire to raise their children.