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The Governess: [The Little Female Academy] [Secure]
eBook by Sarah Fielding
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eBook Category: Classic Literature
eBook Description: Sarah Fielding's The Governess, or Little Female Academy (1749) was the first English novel written expressly for girls, and it is Fielding's only work directed expressly at a younger audience. The slim novel follows the lives of nine girls and their governess, Mrs. Teachum, through nine days of their time together at boarding school. Overtly didactic, The Governess, on the surface at least, concerns itself with reforming the behavior of girls whose previous education and upbringing has rendered them as selfish and unreasoning. Though the course of the novel, which takes place almost entirely outside of the classroom, the students confess their past wrongdoings and express their intent to reform. Obedience is a central theme of the novel, but Fielding complicates the concept by insisting that her characters arrive at obedience and reason through their own desire and agency. In other words, the girls must learn to think for themselves. Fielding teaches her young characters to do this by teaching them how to read. In this text, the characters create written texts of their lives along with listening to and interpreting other texts such as fairy tales and dramas. As the novel progresses, they begin to apply their powers of insight to their own lives as well.
eBook Publisher: IndyPublish Co./IndyPublish
Fictionwise Release Date: January 2005
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