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The real Jane Eyres
From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20080420
Author:Salley vickers
Not even Charlotte Bronte's most famous heroine had a story to match the tangled lives of these real-life governesses
Other People's Daughters By Ruth BrandonWeidenfeld & Nicolson Pounds 20
The governess is a figure most intimately known to us through fiction: Jane Eyre, Becky Sharp, Jane Fairfax, Miss Jessel, Maria (aka Julie Andrews) have informed our imaginations, and fed our prejudices, more tellingly than their real-life models.
It is easy to see why the governess endeared herself to writers of fiction. She occupied the kind of liminal position invaluable to the novelist: ladylike, yet ...
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