Governess In Victorian England
Published on Nov 23, 2015
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GOVERNESSES IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
BY: KYMESHA TYLER, STEVIE HERD, MERCEDES HOWZE, AND SHAREEF JACOBS
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A governess is basically a female teacher hired by upper and middle class people to educated girls at home while boys went off to school.
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Governess are educated and unmarried women who often resided with their employer's family.
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The main subjects of teaching were reading, writing and arithmetic. Governess also taught foreign languages, history, and geography
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In the Victorian society, the view of women was one of piety. These women was one who was pious, never worked, married young, and ran her household and takes care of her husband and children. The ideal woman wore no makeup or displayed pleasure in anyplace except home.
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A Victorian puts her families first at all times and are well educated they expected to be nothing more and nothing less
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