The figure of the governess is very familiar from nineteenth-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This book is the first round

"The Story of a Governess" is one of the works by the master of domestic realism, the historical novel, and tales of the supernatural, Margaret Oliphant. She te

An investigation of the Victorian governess novel as a specific genre. Based on a comprehensive set of nineteenth-century novels, governess manuals, articles an

The importance of ghosts, and liminal experience in general, in the fiction of Henry James.

This book opens a window into the lives of British spinsters in the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, assessing the opportunities open to them and th