governess
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For families who want full-time dedicated staff, a travel nanny costs $120,000 to $170,000 a year; a private governess, a tutor who blends academics with social development, can today reach $200,000.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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
The bathroom belonged to a live-in governess, Mr Virag said, who he was holding a meeting with in a basement room of the five storey property when the theft occurred.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
No one would have to become a governess.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2023
The children wriggled with joy at the news, for they had been looking forward to hearing their governess speak, but the headmistress of the Swanburne Academy merely asked, “Are you sure?”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Among those who taught her was her father, along with a senior teacher at Eton College, several French and Belgian governesses who taught her French, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, who taught her religion.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022
For Americans who associate British TV with crime-solving vicars and emotionally repressed governesses, the fantastically tacky contestants of “Love Island” can be a shock to the system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2022
By 1853 she was head of a hospital in London, England, for governesses, women who couldn’t afford private care but would not consider going to a public facility.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
The girls work as governesses and lady’s companions; they mend old clothes to make them last; they make their own entertainment: plays, newspapers, books, music.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 7, 2019
“Certainly, my best. And I was quite right: depend on that: there are a thousand reasons why liaisons between governesses and tutors should never be tolerated a moment in any well-regulated house; firstly—”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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