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"Be a governess! Better be a slave at once!" - The Governess in the Victorian Age. A comparative analysis of a passage of Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë (1847) and No Name by William Collins (1862), The Governess by Rebecca Solomon (1854) and The Po...
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Charlotte Brontë's outcry might seem exaggerated
to us, but Victorian novels and paintings mostly do not picture the position of a governess in a positive way. Even if it might seem unusual, as the governess is a servant, a mere shade in the house of a family, she has yet caught the attention of artists. Maybe it is precisely her inconspicuous but obstinate presence that attracts the attention. Although she has an acknowledged status, she does not completely fit in her environment. She is diff...
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