10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOVERNESSY»
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governessy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
governessy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
HOUSE OF COMMONS ( PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE)
I do not think it is any part of our duty to go in for governessy Government of that
sort. It is said that hire purchase is an unsatisfactory feature of our life today. On
the contrary, it is part of our economy. One has to think of the young wage earner
...
2
Women, Literature, Criticism
A great measure of personal attractiveness and a high degree of romantic
singularity are necessary to step free of the mundane, the governessy, the threat
of earnestness and dryness. "3 To whom, we ask, is the license jarring? If one
has ...
Harry Raphael Garvin,
1978
3
The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to ...
governessy. E [M]aria and Christina were governessy types whose interior lives
were a good deal more intense than their buttoned-up appearance would
suggest. (Kathryn Hughes, “Christina Rossetti,” New Statesman & Society, 1/6/
1995, p.
4
Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford
I expect you would find me a bit governessy too but so would you, if you had 3
children & no governess. By the way are you still leaving the Donk some jewels?
I came across some old letters, round the time she was born, where you said you
...
Jessica Mitford, Peter Y. Sussman,
2010
Was that it: "No, Steve," said Carlotta, giving me a firm, governessy look. "Scales.
What you weigh yourself on. Anyway, he made a good banker. But his spleen
was overmedicated, and it just ran down." "The man in Monaco," I said, "the one ...
I've considered carefully, too. I had every intention of sacking the swine tomorrow.
It's only the occasion I regret.' 'There's no need, I think,' Donald said in his most
governessy voice, 'for abuse. On my side, I assure you, I'm only too glad to bring ...
7
German Resistance Against Hitler: The Search for Allies ...
... the German people that would make it 'bite off a much larger piece of British
liberalism than it could swallow and digest', and at the same time criticized the
BBC broadcasts in German as too 'governessy'. Trott 334 The Vision and the
Mirage.
Klemens Von Klemperer,
1994
8
On Histories and Stories: Selected Essays
Much later in my thinking I saw that I needed another woman, not confined to her
biological identity, and invented Matilda - who masquerades through the early
part of the story as Matty Crompton, a kind of governessy poor relation, making ...
Antonia Susan Byatt,
2001
9
The Burning Library: Essays
Nor does it treat these characters with a governessy solicitude; rather it judges
them on the basis of the good they do and the happiness they feel and give.
Esthetics and Loss Originally published in Artforum, January 1987, and.
10
Inventing Herself: Claiming a Feminist Intellectual Heritage
A large measure of personal attractiveness and a high degree of romantic
singularity are necessary to step free of the mundane, the governessy, the threat
of earnestness and dryness.”15 McCarthy certainly had romantic singularity. Her
young ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GOVERNESSY»
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governessy is used in the context of the following news items.
As You Like It review – tap dancing takes romance to giddy new …
The latter do not always meet with the approval of Ellie Piercy's Celia, whose more strait-laced governessy anxieties make a fine foil to Terry's ... «The Guardian, May 15»
The Associates, Sadler's Wells
A narrator with a velvety, governessy voice tells the story in the second person through vignettes like Polaroid shots: “this is a picture of you, ... «The Arts Desk, Feb 15»
A colossus, yes. But Maggie could be rude beyond belief
She could have got her point across in any number of better ways, but instead she showed her worst side in a stream of governessy hatred.'. «Daily Mail, Oct 13»
Cary Fukunaga's Bronte film adaptation is no plain Jane Eyre
... Gainsbourg (for Zeffirelli) and Mia Wasikowska (Fukunaga) sustain a heart-jerking tension between longing and governessy composure, and ... «The Australian, Aug 11»
Robert Fisk: Who's running Lebanon?
The Syrian flag, with its governessy and ferocious eagle, rarely flew contentedly next to Lebanon's gentle cedar tree banner. Syria has always ... «Independent, Dec 06»