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OTHER PEOPLE'S DAUGHTERS - The Lives and Times of the Governess
Author: Ruth Brandon
ISBN: 9780297851134
Price: $39.95

A rich and fascinating account of the “the army of unhappy women” (some famous, the majority unknown), whose lives of quiet servitude, romantic daydreaming and intellectual frustration provide a prism through which Brandon examines Victorian attitudes to family and class.