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Governesses?

need a list, as many as you can think of, of woman, governesses in literature that have fellen for the master of the house... dont say sound of music, or Jane Eyre... pleease. 10 points for the most!!


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Here are two general answers:
http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century...
http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/english... (here you have a fictional character Mary Barfoot)

Here is a real one:
Anna Harriette Leonowens and the purportedly autobiographical accounts of her life as a governess in Siam, contained in her memoir The English Governess at the Siamese Court and her book The Romance of the Harem
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi...

And the final one is a Mulato girl
It reads like a typical Victorian melodrama: an impoverished young woman, "strangely, wildly and darkly beautiful," becomes a governess in a wealthy household, and, behold, a French count falls for her and wants to sweep her away.

But there are crucial differences: It is set in race-torn America; the heroine is mulatto; and, the book, "The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride," is believed by some scholars to be the first novel ever published by an African-American woman.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/01/f...

Now I think I earned 40 points at least right? lol