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Miss Pedder`s Governess
Bogan, Louise | September 25, 1937 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Miss Weeton: Journal of a Governess, 1807-1811." In this book, letters and journals record a peculiar, transitional period in English life and an inarticulate and grisly section of English society, the northern lower middle class, and the agricultural, just beginning to pass over into the industrial. In the book, the early nineteenth-century penury, violence, avarice, class-consciousness and provincial alcoholism, boredom, and lust is enlightening, showing as it does the extent to which a society can run down, through lethargy and mismanagement, before disaster or chance start it going again.

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MISS Weeton: Journal of a Governess, 1807-1811 (Book); SOCIAL history; QUALITY of life; ALCOHOLISM; MIDDLE class; SOCIAL classes
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