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1) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
Author
Series
The Smythe-Smith quartet volume 2
Language
English
Description
Anne Wynter, a governess with some dark secrets in her past, is tempted by the dangerously handsome Daniel Smith-Smythe, Earl of Winstead, who relentlessly pursues her despite her social station.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Adelaide Proctor is a young woman with her head in the clouds, longing for a real-life storybook hero to claim as her own. But when a husband-hunting debacle leaves her humiliated, she interviews for a staid governess position on a central Texas sheep ranch and vows to leave her romantic yearnings behind. When Gideon Westcott left his privileged life in England to make a name for himself in America's wool industry, he never expected to become a father...
4) Agnes Grey
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Series
Language
English
Description
Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Unhappy Penelope Lumley is trapped in unhappy Plinkst! Even the beets for which Plinkst is inexplicably famous fail to grow in this miserable Russian village. Penelope anxiously counts the days and wonders how she will ever get back to England in time to save all the Ashtons-who, she now knows, include herself and the Incorrigible children...."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Ladies of Summerhill volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The chance to break the big story is all Charlotte needs to secure her future. But when the truth comes outùit may cost her the love of her life.
Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900ùa glamorous resort town where the rich and famous go to see and be seen.
Charlotte Hale isn't part of that world. She's a working girl, a secretary for a local newspaper, who dreams of becoming a real reporter. When her boss offers
...Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
Veteran governess Laura Grey joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling adventures in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of André Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police.
At first the job is as lively as Latin, but Laura begins to notice Jaouen's increasingly strange behavior. As Laura edges
...8) Born wicked
Author
Series
Cahill witch chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate New England of 1900, where the Brotherhood dominates and controls society, sixteen-year-old Cate Cahill has struggled since her mother's death to keep secret that she and her younger sisters are witches, but when a governess arrives from the Sisterhood, everything changes.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer,...
11) The unseen guest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The children and Penelope, their governess, leave London and return to Ashton Place where Penelope decides to take matters into her own hands and do some investigating to find out the truth about the children, Lord Ashton, and herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" as told by young Teddy's governess, who came to work at the Vaughn family "cottage" shortly before a golden-haired girl, ragged and dirty, entered the home and soon became a beloved foster child, until evil characters tried to take her away.
13) Mr. Rochester
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A deft and irresistible retelling of Charlotte Brontë's beloved classic Jane Eyre--from the point of view of the dashing, mysterious Mr. Rochester himself.
For 170 years, Edward Fairfax Rochester has stood as one of literature's most complex and captivating romantic heroes. Sometimes cruel, sometimes tender, Jane Eyre's mercurial master at Thornfield Hall has mesmerized, beguiled, and, yes, baffled fans of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece for generations....
14) Devil's bride
Author
Series
Cynster novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Devil, the most infamous member of the Cynster family, is caught in a compromising position with plucky governess Honoria Wetherby, he astonishes the entire town by offering his hand in marriage. No one dreamed this scandalous rake would ever take a bride. And as society mamas swooned at the loss of England′s most eligible bachelor, Devil′s infamous Cynster cousins began to place wagers on the wedding date.
But Honoria wasn′t about to...
15) Hunter's prize
Author
Series
Backwoods brides volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Addie McRae accepts a job as governess to young Cedric Whitfield, but she has no idea what lies ahead--especially when a string of attempted robberies and a kidnapping threaten the peace of the Whitfield household in Marshall, Texas.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family by the #1 International bestselling-author of Miss Austen.
On January 21, 1804, Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham Park in Kent to take up the position of governess. At thirty-one years old, she has no previous experience of either teaching or fine country houses. Her mother has died, and she has nowhere else to go. Anne...
Author
Series
Cornwall novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the first of a new series from beloved Regency romance author, Sarah Ladd, Delia, a governess to five recently orphaned children, would risk anything to protect them . . . even her heart"--
Author
Series
Rogues to lovers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Girls Before Earls is the delightful first novel in the Rogues to Lovers series from romance author Anna Bennett.
What a girl wants
To survive her difficult childhood, Miss Hazel Lively relied on two things: a tough exterior and a love of books. Now, she's realized her life-long dream of opening a school for girls. She's hoping the wealthy families who summer at the shore will entrust their daughters to Bellehaven Academy - and help pay for less...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
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Description
Beautiful and refined Emily Harris, hoping to make a mark on the world before settling down with a husband and family, accepts a job teaching two young girls on an isolated Idaho ranch, and determines to prove her worth in spite of the misgivings of rancher Gavin Blake who doubts Emily will be able to tolerate life in the rugged high country.
20) The unmapped sea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to break the wolfish curse that is threatening her charges and their unborn baby sibling, Miss Penelope Lumley takes a seaside holiday in the hope of gaining answers from an aging mariner.
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