governess

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When Elizabeth saw the manuscript, she wrote to a friend that “the governess has gone off her head.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026

Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House as a governess with a secret, which would be enough for many a novel set in Victorian England.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2025

In The Governess, he played a father with an interest in photography who falls for his muse, and governess, played by Minnie Driver.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2023

She worked as a governess in Paris and later converted to Catholicism and was baptized at the age of 26.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2023

The boys looked down at the floor, up at the ceiling, and sideways at each other, everywhere but at their governess.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood