In my first blog post I presented the elements of a Victorian Governess Novel and wrote about Charlotte Brontë’s intentions with her famous book, Jane Eyre. I also researched and described the life of real governesses in the Victorian period with the help of M. Jeanne Peterson’s work on the subject. Now I will use…

Do you ever wonder what the life of working women, especially governesses was in the nineteenth century? To what extent is one of the most popular novels on the life of a governess, Jane Eyre, a reliable source? These are the questions I would like to answer in this two-part series. A governess as main…