The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Critical Essay - Joanna Martin (essay date 1998) - Volume 104

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The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Introduction
The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Works
The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
- M. Jeanne Peterson (essay date 1970)
- Kathryn Hughes (essay date 1993)
The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Social Roles And Economic Conditions
The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Fictional Governesses
The Governess in Nineteenth-Century Literature Further Reading

Joanna Martin (essay date 1998)

SOURCE: An introduction to A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter, The Hambledon Press, 1998, pp. 1-74.

[In the following excerpt, the journals and letters of late eighteenth-century governess Agnes Porter are discussed. Comparisons are made between Porter's experiences and those portrayed in Jane Austen's fiction.]

Ann Agnes Porter was born in Edinburgh, a few years after the Jacobite rising of 1745.¹ For twenty years between 1784 and 1806, living in Somerset,...

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