Hints to Governesses. By one of themselves. [Signed, “A Governess.”]
Title | Hints to Governesses. By one of themselves. [Signed, “A Governess.”] PDF eBook |
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Pages | 46 |
Release | 1856 |
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The Governesses
Title | The Governesses PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Serre |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 76 |
Release | 2018-10-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811228088 |
Publishers Weekly Best Books in Fiction 2018 The sensational US debut of a major French writer—an intense, delicious meringue of a novella In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children’s education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book’s “deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader.” Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre.
Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins
Title | Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgia Grilli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135868018 |
The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.
Book for Governesses
Title | Book for Governesses PDF eBook |
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Release | 1900 |
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Henry James and the Ghostly
Title | Henry James and the Ghostly PDF eBook |
Author | T. J. Lustig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2011-02-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521131599 |
The importance of ghosts, and liminal experience in general, in the fiction of Henry James.
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Title | Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870 PDF eBook |
Author | Avero Publications Limited |
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Pages | 604 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9780907977346 |
Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Martha Vicinus |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135045275 |
First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a combination of sexual innocence, conspicuous consumption and worship of the family hearth. Indeed, this model in some form was the ideal of all classes as the perfect lady’s only functions were marriage and procreation. The text offers a valuable insight into Victorian culture and society.