governess's

Household teacher's belonging

Governess's is the possessive form of governess, a woman employed to teach and supervise children in a private household.

The role was common among upper-class families in the 18th and 19th centuries: The governess's duties included French, piano, and deportment.

Jane Eyre chronicles a governess's life at Thornfield Hall.

education

lessons

Units of teaching

schoolroomIndoor teaching space
instructionGuidance for action
curriculumEducational program's content plan

French · piano · deportment · arithmetic · needlework · geography · penmanship · drawing · grammar · tutoring

literary

Jane Eyre

BronteVictorian literary surname
VictorianOf a prim era
romanceLove and its excitement

Rebecca · heroine · narrative · novel · protagonist · bildungsroman · fiction · archetype · melodrama · orphan

employment

charges

Amounts owed or alleged

pupilsStudents or eye openings
householdDomestic unit of residents
nurseryRoom for infants

employer · salary · duties · quarters · references · position · contract · dismissal · engagement · mistress

status

respectability

Moral and social worthiness

gentilityRefined social standing
stationFixed stopping point
classGrouping by shared traits

isolation · liminality · refinement · propriety · subordination · dependence · precariousness · dignity · spinster · reduced

Opposites

domestic role/authority

governess'sparents

Mother and father

mother's · father's · parent's · employer's · guardian's

gender of child-educator

governess'stutor's

Belonging to private instructor

governor's · schoolmaster's · manservant's

educational setting

governess'sschoolteacher's

Of the classroom instructor

headmaster's · professor's · instructor's

Family

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