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• Governesses in literature

• The Governess (London: Chatto and Windus, 1912), by Mrs. Alfred William Hunt and Violet Hunt, contrib. by Ford Madox Ford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Agnes Grey (Oxford: B. Blackwell; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931), by Anne Brontë
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net
• Agnes Grey (London: T. C. Newby, 1847), by Anne Brontë (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë (HTML with numbered paragraphs at victorian-studies.net)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (London: Service and Paton, 1897), by Charlotte Brontë, illust. by F. H. Townsend (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Jane Eyre: An Autobiography (copyright edition by "Currer Bell", 2 volumes; Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1850), by Charlotte Brontë (images at MOA)
• Mademoiselle Ixe (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by Lanoe Falconer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (Gutenberg text)
• Anne Hereford (3 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1868), by Mrs. Henry Wood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Miss Bunting (c1945), by Angela Thirkell (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• East Lynne, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Gutenberg text)

• The Children of Wilton Chase, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Esther: A Book for Girls, by Rosa Nouchette Carey (Gutenberg text)
• Explorers of the Dawn (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Mazo De la Roche, contrib. by Christopher Morley
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • multiple formats at Google
• Katy's Christmas (volume 1 of The Doll's Club series; Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger, 1871), by Virginia W. Johnson (illustrated HTML at readseries.com)
• Julia Maitland: or, Pride Goes Before a Fall (London: Griffith and Farran; New York, E. P. Dutton and Co., 1882), by Mary Kirby and Elizabeth Kirby, illust. by John Absolon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mrs. Leonowens (Montreal: Gazette Printing Co., ca. 1915), by John Macnaughton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1870), by Anna Harriette Leonowens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens (Gutenberg text)

• Mrs. Leonowens (Montreal: Gazette Printing Co., ca. 1915), by John Macnaughton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok (Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co., 1870), by Anna Harriette Leonowens
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok, by Anna Harriette Leonowens (Gutenberg text)

• Misreading Jane Eyre: A Postformalist Paradigm (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1996), by Jerome Beaty (PDF at Ohio State)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bill the Minder (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1912), by W. Heath Robinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Christie Redfern's Troubles, by Margaret M. Robertson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Teacher and School Organization (third edition; Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959), by Leo M. Chamberlain and Leslie W. Kindred (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Teacher and School Organization (second edition; New York: Prentice-Hall, 1950), by Leo M. Chamberlain and Leslie W. Kindred (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Schoolmaster (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908), by Arthur Christopher Benson (page images at Google; US access only)

• Do Teachers Care About Truth? Epistemological Issues for Education, by Edwin Philip Brandon (HTML at uwichill.edu.bb)

• An Autobiographical Sketch of a Teacher's Life: Including a Residence in the Northern and Southern States, California, Cuba and Peru (1875), by C. E. Holt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, c2016), by Jennifer Riggan (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Decline and Fall (revised edition, c1962), by Evelyn Waugh (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Autumn (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., c1921), by Robert Nathan (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Passionate Year (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1924), by James Hilton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Good-Bye, Mr. Chips (c1934), by James Hilton (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Little Demon (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1916), by Fyodor Sologub, trans. by John Cournos and Richard Aldington
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Die Judenfrage und der Gymnasiallehrer: Ein Beitrag zur Richtigstellung der Öffentlichen Meinung (third edition, in German; Berlin: F. Luckhardt, 1880), by Ernst Siecke
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust

• My Sky is Blue (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1961), by Loula Grace Erdman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Master of the Shell, by Talbot Baines Reed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Pitchers: Flaxie Frizzle Stories (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1895), by Sophie May (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Roman Reporter (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; et al., ca. 1893), by Arthur Aikin Brodribb (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Willing to be Useful: or, Principle and Duty Illustrated in the Story of Edith Allison (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1874) (page images at Florida)
• The Wizard of the Sea: or, A Trip Under the Ocean, by Roy Rockwood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Talks to Teachers on Psychology, and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1925), by William James (Gutenberg text)

• Eines Deutschen Hauslehrers Pilgerschaft Durch Land und Leben (1792-1818) (in German; Reval: F. Kluge's Verlag, 1913), by Christian Carl Ludwig Klee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Needed Research in Teacher Education (AACTE Study Series #2; Oneonta, NY: American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 1954), by American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education Committee on Studies and Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• In-Service Education of Elementary Teachers: A Teacher's Guide for the Self-Evaluation of Her School (Lincoln, NE: D-S Wynne Co., 1943), by Meredith Whitla Darlington and Rose Arlene Skudler, illust. by Emma Skudler Winkle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Education in the Home, the Kindergarten, and the Primary School (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1887), by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, contrib. by E. Adelaide Manning (Gutenberg text)

• Industrial Arts in the Open Access Curriculum (American Council on Industrial Arts Teacher Education Yearbook #27; Bloomington, IL: McKnight Pub. Co., 1978), ed. by Lowell D. Anderson (PDF at vt.edu)

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