Governesses' Benevolent Institution

DPC died at the Aged Governesses' Asylum in Kentish Town in London.

The collection was dedicated to The Patrons and Friends of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , and, In Especial, To Mrs David Laing . Proceeds from its sale (like those from Dinah Mulock Craik 's Bread...

Twenty-four years after his writer mother 's death, Richard Cobbold delivered for the benefit of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution a lecture entitled The Character of Woman, printed the same year.

IT 's mother, Maud (Holt) Tree , taught classics at Queen's College , Harley Street and harboured the ambition of becoming an academic at Girton College .

An appendix provided an impassioned history of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution 's activities, quoting Maria Edgeworth on thrift. The logic of the story, by which the good the governess has done to others returns...

CB was stung by Elizabeth Rigby 's attack on the second edition in the Quarterly, which entered the debate over governesses by reviewing the novel alongside Thackeray 's Vanity Fair and the Report of...

Kathryn Hughes notes that SL 's support of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution (founded in 1843), and their efforts (via Queen's College , founded on 1 May 1848) to establish a system of qualification for governesses...

An astute business woman in her dealings with publishers, DMC actively supported working women: she wrote a story to raise funds for the Governesses' Benevolent Institution and invited London shopgirls to spend their half-holiday with...

Dinah Mulock (as the author of Olive) published the short novel Bread upon the Waters; A Governess's Life, issued in support of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution .

From early in her career, with the publication of Bread upon the Waters in support of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , DMC occasionally lent her power, influence, and popularity as a writer to direct support...

ABJ published the pamphlet The Relative Position of Mothers and Governesses, which protests against the poor education of both, and offers encouragement to the Governesses' Benevolent Association .

The work also includes an essay, Working Memoranda, outlining the objectives of the Governesses' Benevolent Institution .

Female Industry is a wide-ranging review covering the 1851 census results, the reports of Poor Law Commissioners on women and children in agriculture, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution , and The Lowell Offering, as well...

Morgan left a self-made fortune of more than £15,000 (her earnings had actually increased since she was awarded her pension of £300 a year). Her estate went to her surviving nieces, except for bequests to...

D. Laing (in the same letter which reports on AOK 's early love-affair) appealed on her behalf to the Royal Literary Fund with both warm sympathy and condescension.