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    168 THE GOVERNESS QUESTION.

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    gover boohed ought ; to have the first chance . On other days , , the agents advertise and ticket their wares ( vide the " Times" ) exactly like the

    drapers and mercers selling their goods , at an _aiaemin g sacrifice ; s h A rich awls lad dueapes , five twent shi , llin one -two gs shilling , wor incom th parable & and v _& guineas five p ianis ence . " te three So linguis the farthings governess t like ; Cardinal superb tariff ,

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    geology , astronomy , etc .: salary thirty-five pounds . " A lady says , s " ervants dozen send me ha of v some all e th work e governesses pleasure who answer of , " meeting which advertisement the in the _ag-ent same does . parlor It , and is reall , just perh lik aps e your y very

    gen sity the teel novels always _, cellence very of turned com some ad / me injlnitum gover , sixt il faut y ness or _, to s t even ; but use ty the no being years thing more a ago paragon of fashionable , the even heroine of virtue tuall phrase in , proving beauty adver . In - ,

    th her an daug ex h ter yers of , a duke ersecutors or , earl . , she Nous was avons not made change ridiculous tout cela y , . it was For

    novel some thirty writers years , of women or p more especiall , the g y 'overness . Dr . Johnson is the invariable said Shakespeare butt of

    could govern never ess , ( we resis don t ' a t pun accus ; e the the novelist novelist of cannot resembling resist Shake a slap speare at the . )

    Miss Austin was a very clever and seemingly good woman , but a governess was too good a subject to be slighted : in Mansfield Park ,

    private theatricals are being discussed , no one will take the secondary parts alw , when ve t hose young man ts to sa the ys , " v Oh ern , ess you " wh kno -O w , b at the Lord mi we ht y wayg

    possibl ays y have acte p d quite as g well as the ; amateur , geniuses , . The fashionable MrsGore has almost as jokes as Joe Miller about

    governesses tten the , we . cannot has rem to ember write all a letter , many but on and e is o too ens cap her ital desk to be which

    forgo ; governess , p , w reen as lined baize w " ith green the fashionable baize , " A wit gove . r Thi ness s * remark desk is is alwa so profound ys lined w and ith says

    g transcendental , that it must be placed with the " Tatler ' s" exordium , every " When bod I y am has particularl read the " y Daisy dull , I Chain have : " the n author ing in professes it . " We presume a double is

    fair sp old maid game t of , ! twisting lig The ion and first her goodness governess thin hair ; is no o represented ver matter her , the g as ers genus a , ( fussy peculiar governess fantastical

    doubt-Dr less and to affect the could ation race , , ) always The her taking next is The offence quite strong , young one -minded wonders , such heroine how a lump is the constantl sensible of foll y y

    try snubbing . in May g , and her the ; engage constant but at last solitude . owns . , " that Just " no so doub ! This fc teaching very good all famil day y is ,

    seem breaking to * sympathise their hearts with about the the poor ragged orphan children of . eig , in hteen the village in her , lonel never y

    168 The Governess Question.

    168 THE GOVERNESS QUESTION .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1859, page 168, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111859/page/24/