... norms of the period. Ill-treatment of the governess had become a topic for wide debate amongst the educated classes during the 1840s, with many authors pleading for her status as a lady to be more respected by employers. No contemporary author I've ever come access argued that the governess was not a lady, despite being well aware of the poverty in which most of ... ...

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