governess

Converse of object

• become: Many young women reading Austen in her own lifetime would have become governesses, teaching the children of the rich.
• have: Their daughters might have a private governess to teach them at home.
• include: Recent films include The Governess, with Minnie Driver as a young 19th century Sephardi woman on the Isle of Skye.
• appoint: The Queen appointed a governess, Catherine Peebles, shortly before The Prince's fifth birthday.
• hire: Was he perhaps more foolish to hire the particular governess he did?
• want: Nobody wanted governesses nowadays, said the agencies, when these preliminaries were over; every-body sent their children to properly organized schools.

Adjective modifier

• Victorian: This is the cane which made the Victorian governess a figure to be instantly obeyed.
• French: She was known to be a " French governess " , whatever that title means.
• English: She was an English governess hired to teach King Mongkut's 67 children.
• new: The new governess is due to arrive on the same day.
• young: A young governess in London suspects that her employer who lives in the house next door is a killer.
• old: I sent for my old governess, and she, give her her due, acted the part of a true friend.

Modifies a noun

• cart: He is remembered locally for driving his governess cart drawn by a white pony.

Noun used with modifier

• nursery: From that day I ceased to be nursery governess, and became English teacher.
• family: He then became infatuated with the family governess and ran off with her to Paris in the summer of 1870.

Possessives

• child: His wife Dasha has learned of his affair with the children's governess.

Preposition: in

• family: She had become a daily governess in the family of a gentleman who had come to live in the neighborhood.

Preposition: of

• offspring: The governess of these offspring was Madame de Maintenon, who subsequently entered into a morganatic marriage with the monarch.
• child: She is the offspring from his second marriage with the governess of the children of the first.

Preposition: for

• child: Those who were fortunate may have become maids for wealthier families, others may have worked as governesses for rich children.