Governess
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In fiction
Several well-known works of fiction, particularly in the nineteenth century, have focused on governesses.
- Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
- Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey
- Henry James's most famous governess is the over-sensitive, perhaps hysterical one in The Turn of the Screw.
- Maria, the main character in The Sound of Music, leaves convent life to become a governess.
- Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Hogfather features a governess named Susan Sto Helit.
- Soap opera Dark Shadows featured the character Victoria Winters as the governess to David Collins.
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