| These he mixed with reproductions of old group portraits, of militias and the governors and governesses of charitable institutions. |
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| Born in Limerick in 1930, he was one of eight children of a wealthy flour-miller and was brought up surrounded by servants and governesses. |
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| He finally abandoned academic qualifications and appointed a collection of pharmacists, country doctors, schoolteachers, and governesses. |
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| Although father had employed governesses and nannies for our care during the time he was away, Olga took the most care of us. |
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| But while the Queen had to act properly, it was Fleming who spoke of improper things, made crude jokes, and cheeked the governesses and tutors. |
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| Many young women reading Austen in her own lifetime would have become governesses, teaching the children of the rich. |
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| She was educated by governesses and spent a brief period at a boarding school. |
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| The brothers' education was amplified by long summer holidays of reading and by French and English governesses. |
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| Only a poor minister, he knew his daughters would likely have to work as teachers or governesses, and their education would be indispensable. |
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| She was taught by strict governesses in a room with barred windows on the third floor of her home. |
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| Elizabeth's Edwardian childhood was privileged and secure, a world dominated by nurserymaids and governesses, but two dates had fixed points in the firmament of her life. |
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| There were more governesses than there were well-born children these days. |
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| The wealthy paid governesses to educate their daughters at home. |
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| The whole top floor was turned into a nursery which she shared with her sister Margaret Rose, and both were educated privately here by governesses. |
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| Elizabeth was brought up in the care of governesses and tutors at Hatfield House and spent her days studying Greek and Latin with the Cambridge scholar, Roger Ascham. |
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| She was educated at home in Torquay, by governesses and by her mother. |
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| As a child and adolescent, Edith was educated at home by governesses. |
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| Born into a privileged household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. |
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| Charlotte and Anne, being more realistic, did not hesitate in finding work and from April 1839 to December 1841 the two sisters had several posts as governesses. |
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