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Governess.(Governess: The Lives and Times of the Real Jane Eyres)(Brief article)(Book review)
In nineteenth-century England, girls were most commonly educated by governesses; the system was also a way of absorbing the country's "huge pool of spinsters." (The 1851 census found that thirty per cent of women above the age of twenty were single.) For upper- and middle-class women forced to earn a living, it represented one of the only respectable employments, and often a dreaded inevitability: after succumbing to the profession, in 1820, Claire Clairmont, the cosmopolitan stepsister of Mary Shelley and the mother ...
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