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Written in Dickensian prose, This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer,...
3) Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
4) Agnes Grey
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Written when women-and workers generally-had few rights in England, Agnes Grey exposes the brutal inequities of the rigid class system in mid-nineteenth century Britain. Agnes comes from a respectable middle-class family, but their financial reverses have forced her to seek work as a governess. Pampered and protected at home, she is unprepared for the harsh reality of a governess's life. At the Bloomfields and later the Murrays, she suffers under...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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A countess decides her daughter's newborn child will be sent, along with a governess and a large sum of money, to a convent in the French countryside in order to save her daughter and the family from the shame of having a child out of wedlock, but eventually the child and governess decide to flee the convent and must travel across German-occupied France to reach their former home in Poland.
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"This will be a battle of wits, madam."
Alex Arrandale, Earl of Davenport, is used to getting what he wants. So when he visits Diana Grensham, governess and joint guardian to his wards, and asks her to vacate his property, he is stunned when she refuses!
Diana is determined not to bow to Alex's demands. Her whole life, she has believed she is unlovable and worthless, but now, as she and Alex engage in a battle of wills, Diana's confidence blooms....
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Be tempted by the forbidden in this sexy Regency…
Her new employer…
Is the only man to tempt her!
One could never be prepared for a Duke,thinks governess Mary McLaren upon meeting her imposing new employer, Samuel, the Duke of Westmere. There to tame his disobedient children, she finds their widower father is cold and forbidding, but with a strength she finds oddly reassuring. She's escaped a brutal past in Scotland and should steer clear of...
8) Jane Eyre
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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A mousy governess who softens the heart of her employer soon discovers that he's hiding a terrible secret.
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Harlequin
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[2021]
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English
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"From impoverished governess...to wealthy heiress Governess Leah Thame learns she's inherited a fortune the day her employer, the enigmatic Earl of Dolphinstone, returns from abroad. They share an instant connection, but in order to claim her inheritance, Leah must resign and find a husband. The guarded widower offers a convenient marriage to stop her leaving, but Leah refuses. She won't marry the man who's captured her heart unless there's a chance...
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HarperCollins
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[2011]
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English
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The supremely talented Margo Maguire brings us Seducing the Governess the first in her lush historical series set in England's colorful Regency Era, featuring the lost heiresses of a powerful duke and their surprising discoveries of fortune, passion, and romance. A thrilling, emotionally rich love story in the vein of Liz Carlyle and Julia London, Seducing the Governess brings a beautiful young lady into the crumbling estate of a tormented, vengeance-seeking...
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Harlequin
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[2019]
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English
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"A ruined governess And a marriage born of scandal! When penniless Linnet Osborne takes a job as a governess, she's shocked to discover her new employer is none other than Christian, Lord Blakely! They'd once shared a passionate embrace that almost forced them to marry. Christian is no less compelling now-so much so that Linnet is tempted to explore beyond those fleeting kisses... But that would mean they'd have to wed! "Helen did an excellent job...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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I have a proposal for you ... The last place respectable governess Ianthe Holt ever expected to be proposed to was in a train carriage ... by a stranger ... who had just accused her of trying to trap another man into marriage! Shipping magnate Robert Felstone may be dashing, but he's also insufferable, impertinent -- and Ianthe's only possible savior from her uncertain fate. She's hesitant to play the perfect Felstone wife, but Robert soon shows Ianthe...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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The sensational Debra Mullins launches a new Victorian Era-set series with Tempting a Proper Lady a wild and passionate romp about a proper wedding planner who join forces with a dashing gentleman to stop the wedding of the year, and the romantic chaos that ensues. Brimming with sensuality and electric sexual tension between the protagonists, Mullins s Tempting is a tempting treat indeed, especially if you like the novels of Lorraine Heath and Julie...
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Family secrets and sinister plots abound in this beautifully atmospheric Victorian gothic thriller from a celebrated Irish author. For Maud Ruthyn, life is lonely in a mansion with no family besides her melancholic father. But when Madame de la Rougierre is hired to be her governess, Maud finds herself in the clutches of a mysterious and malevolent woman. When her caregiver is eventually dismissed, Maud is relieved to have the woman out of her life....
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Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Proper English governess Eleanor Morgan flees to the colonies to escape the wrath of a brute of an employer. When the Charles Town family she's to work for never arrives to collect her from the dock, she is forced to settle for the only reputable choice remaining to her--marriage to a man she's never met. Trapper and tracker Samuel Heath is a hardened survivor used to getting his own way by brain or by brawn, and he's determined to find a mother for...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A new position for the governess As mistress of Pendragon Hall? Unfairly dismissed from her previous position, her reputation ruined, governess Maud Wilmot is forced to take on a new identity. When she feels an ever-growing attraction to her new employer, Cornish railway entrepreneur Dominic Jago, Maud longs to reveal the truth. But doing so could end their fledgling romance before it's truly begun... " The Scandalous Suffragette is a romance filled...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Miss Caroline Ritter, accomplished flirt, acknowledgedbeauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers lessons toany rich, noble lord too inept to attract a wife. Discardyour silly affectations and your garish clothing!Learn the art of witty conversation, elegant dancing,equestrian feats and irresistible seduction at theopera! With Miss Ritter's help, you can become themost sought-after aristocrat at the ball! Send your request to the Distinguished Academyof...
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Harlequin Historical
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Beneath the governess's blush...;
Heiress Sarah Hardcastle is convinced her plan to escape the unwanted attentions of a fortune hunter is foolproof. Buried deep in the countryside, and with a whole new identity as prim governess Miss Goodrum, Sarah is looking forward to the quiet life for once.
But her careful masquerade is shaken when she meets her pupils' mentor, Lord Rupert Myers. An incorrigible flirt, Rupert has the looks and the charm to make...
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Harlequin Historical
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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GOVERNESS?
Darkly delicious Lord Adam Hawthorne doesn't care a whit for society-;especially the tedium of finding a wife. So taking on a new governess for his young daughter shouldn't shake his steely disposition!
OR LADY IN DISGUISE?
Except Mrs. Elena Leighton, an enigmatic widow, is a most intriguing addition to the household. What are those ladylike airs and graces beneath her dowdy exterior?
Despite great impropriety, Lord Hawthorne...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Forbidden to the undercover earl! Hiding from society, heiress Eleanor Hancourt must live as ordinary governess Nell Court to escape her family's scandals. But when the new estate manager arrives, her quiet existence is disrupted. He may be unspeakably arrogant, but he's also irresistible! Fergus is really the Earl of Barberry, undercover to investigate his own estate. Instead, he discovers the new governess is an illicit temptation, a match that...
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