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  • the general themes of the book. For instance, writing or talking about the unnamed governess in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw would constitute on-topic...
    4 KB (625 words) - 06:19, 7 December 2023
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    his siblings, Charles, Anne, and Edward, Andrew was looked after by a governess, who was responsible for his early education at Buckingham Palace. He...
    171 KB (16,546 words) - 11:41, 10 April 2024
  • Clara Oswald (category Fictional governesses)
    whom he initially knows only as Clara. She is a Victorian barmaid and governess whom the Doctor invites to be his newest companion, but who dies from...
    61 KB (6,283 words) - 12:36, 12 April 2024
  • her under the authority of Miss Rottenmeier, the strict, no-nonsense governess in charge of Clara's welfare. Heidi and Clara immediately become friends...
    42 KB (5,237 words) - 16:21, 28 March 2024
  • The Forsyte Saga (2002 TV series) (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from June 2010)
    party. We find he is at home with his daughter, June, and her French governess, Hélène. Jolyon and Hélène are involved in a minor flirtation, but their...
    51 KB (7,702 words) - 00:28, 21 March 2024
  • Arsenic for Tea (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from March 2022)
    Stephen Bampton (Bertie's best friend), and Miss Alston (Daisy and Hazel's governess and secretary to Lord Hastings). Daisy will turn 14 during the holidays...
    7 KB (922 words) - 02:46, 20 February 2024
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    novella by Henry James and directed by John Frankenheimer. She played a governess to two little children, who are haunted by the ghost of their previous...
    174 KB (19,556 words) - 12:30, 8 April 2024
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    Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from August 2022)
    lived comfortably: Five footmen, a butler, a valet, a lady's maid, a governess, a nursery maid and six chefs attended them. Michael afforded this lifestyle...
    27 KB (3,236 words) - 03:13, 5 April 2024
  • the Beast". The Young Misses Magazine, Containing Dialogues between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality Her Scholars. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). London:...
    150 KB (14,334 words) - 23:08, 14 April 2024
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    Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (category Governesses to the English Royal Household)
    was now in the possession of the Crown. In 1520 Margaret was appointed governess to Henry's daughter Mary. The next year, when her sons were mixed up with...
    32 KB (3,718 words) - 11:27, 15 April 2024
  • Mephistopheles in the arts and popular culture (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from September 2022)
    Nayeri's Another Faust series, Mephistopheles takes the form of a beautiful governess named Nicola Vileroy, taking children from their families, offering them...
    22 KB (2,721 words) - 02:25, 13 March 2024
  • for 2021. The Attic: Terror of the Towers - Around here, people talk of the Governess – how she's haunted by the death of her young charges, how she wants...
    120 KB (11,180 words) - 16:39, 14 April 2024
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    Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse) (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from December 2023)
    briefly as Edward VIII of the United Kingdom in 1936. Alix wrote to her old governess that "I am more happy than words can express. At last, after these five...
    107 KB (14,539 words) - 21:34, 18 April 2024
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    Elizabeth Báthory (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from March 2021)
    this cannot be confirmed. All of Elizabeth's children were cared for by governesses, as Báthory herself had been.[citation needed] Ferenc Nádasdy died on...
    39 KB (4,020 words) - 01:37, 11 April 2024
  • grandfather's abilities, she longed to be normal, and got human jobs, first as a governess in Hogfather, and then as a schoolteacher in Thief of Time. Death constantly...
    38 KB (5,473 words) - 22:02, 21 March 2024
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    lady-in-waiting (responsible for the queen's female courtiers) and the office royal governess (or foster-mother) in four, with two women appointed to share each office...
    132 KB (14,920 words) - 03:15, 5 April 2024
  • Salem's Seven (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from January 2016)
    inhabitants, but she chose to live among humanity. In time, she becomes the governess for Franklin Richards (son of Invisible Woman and Mister Fantastic of...
    10 KB (1,269 words) - 01:43, 9 March 2024
  • The Birthday Party (novel) (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from May 2023)
    disintegrates, and the children are left in the care of a nanny and a governess while the two spouses increasingly go their separate ways. Miranda Timoleon...
    14 KB (2,015 words) - 08:38, 13 November 2023
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    Mikhail Lermontov (category Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from August 2015)
    chicken off its feet"). Positive influence came from Lermontov's German governess Christina Rhemer, a religious woman who introduced the boy to the idea...
    78 KB (9,747 words) - 03:31, 7 April 2024
  • school generally go into the teaching profession themselves, or become governesses. Sto Lat, ruled by Queen Kelirehenna, is located about 20 miles (32 km)...
    105 KB (16,082 words) - 22:48, 3 April 2024
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