GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia
ISBN: 9780642279620
Partricia Clarke
Jobs were few and poverty was widespread among educated middle-class women in nineteenth-century Britain. Great Expectations is the story of a group of intrepid ladies who forged a different path - as governesses to wild colonial boys and girls on the other side of the world. Often fluent in multiple foreign languages, skilled artists and musicians, the women came with great expectations. Some gained employment with well-established families or found husbands;...