Behind a Mask; or, A Woman's Power | Social Concerns
In Behind a Mask, Alcott explores women's issues through the character Jean Muir and her relationships with the Coventry family, members of the English gentry. Jean enters the sumptuous Coventry household in the role of a meek, black-clad governess, to take up duties with the sixteen-year-old Bella. Upon her arrival, Jean tells her employers that she is nineteen, of Scotch descent, has "not a relation in the world," and was dismissed from the hospital "only a week ago." Actually, the reader soon learns, Jean is a thirtyish, vengeful, divorced ex-actress from Paris, determined to...
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