Editing Governess (section)

==Fictional==
===Novels===
Several well-known works of fiction, particularly in the nineteenth century, have focused on governesses.<ref>{{cite web |author=Lecaros, Cecilia Wadsö |url=http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/wadso2.html |title=The Victorian Governess Novel |website=www.victorianweb.org}}</ref>

*''[[The Governess, or The Little Female Academy]]'' (1749) is a collection of short stories for children, by [[Sarah Fielding]]
*[[Jane Austen]]'s novel ''[[Emma (novel)|Emma]]'' (1815) opens with the eponymous heroine losing Miss Taylor, the governess who had become a family companion, to marriage with Mr. Weston. Later, Jane Fairfax feels the threat of being forced to become a governess if her covert attachment to Frank Churchill all comes to nothing.
*[[Mary Martha Sherwood]] wrote a revised version of ''The Governess, or The Little Female Academy'' in 1820.
*[[Jane Eyre (character)|Jane Eyre]], the protagonist in [[Charlotte Brontë]]'s [[Jane Eyre|novel of that name]] (1847), serves as a governess to the ward of her future husband, Edward Fairfax Rochester.
*''[[Agnes Grey]]'' by [[Anne Brontë]] the same year, portrays a more realistic view of what life for a governess was like. 
*Becky Sharp, the main character in [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]'s novel ''[[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1847–48), is employed as a governess.
*Madame de la Rougierre is the wicked and mentally unbalanced French governess to heiress orphan Maud Ruthyn in [[Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu]]'s gothic novel ''[[Uncle Silas]]'' (1864).
*Stiva, the brother of the eponymous heroine in ''[[Anna Karenina]]'' (1878), had an affair with his children's governess.
*[[Henry James]]'s most famous governess is the over-sensitive and perhaps hysterical protagonist in ''[[The Turn of the Screw]] (1898).''
*Two of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories tell the tales of governesses: Violet Hunter, in "[[The Adventure of the Copper Beeches]]", and Violet Smith, in "[[The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist]]". In addition, [[Mary Morstan]], the wife of [[Dr. John Watson]], used to be a governess.
*Dante serves as governess to [[Stephen Dedalus]] and his siblings in [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]'' (1916).
*In [[Winifred Watson]]'s novel ''[[Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (novel)|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day]]'' (1938), the title character is a life-long governess who unexpectedly finds other employment.
*[[Patricia Wentworth]]'s [[Miss Silver]] series of novels, features Maud Silver as a governess turned private enquiry agent.
*[[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' series features a governess named [[Susan Sto Helit]].
*[[Eva Ibbotson]]'s [[children's literature|children's novel]] ''[[Journey to the River Sea]]'' (2001) features Arabella Minton as governess to the main character.
*[[Michel Faber]]'s [[historical fiction]] ''[[The Crimson Petal and the White]]'' (2002) features a clever woman, Sugar, who climbs improbably from prostitution to governess
*In [[Libba Bray]]'s ''[[Gemma Doyle Trilogy]]'' (2003–2007), the title character's orphaned friend is brought up to be a governess.
*[[Diane Setterfield]]'s [[Gothic fiction|gothic]] suspense novel ''[[The Thirteenth Tale]]'' (2006) develops parallels with ''Jane Eyre'', including the role of the governess.
*In the [[Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont]]'s writing ''Containing Dialogues between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality Her Scholars'', which was published in ''The Young Misses Magazine'', she writes about the polite talks between Ms. Bonne and her class.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmwEAAAAYAAJ |website=The Young Misses Magazine at books.google.com |access-date=8 December 2020 |title = The Young Misses Magazine:|quote=Containing Dialogues Between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality, Her Scholars. : In which Each Lady is Made to Speak According to Her Particular Genius, Temper, and Inclination: Their Several Faults are Pointed Out, and the Easy Way to Mend Them, as Well as to Think, and Speak, and Act Properly; No Less Care Being Taken to Form Their Hearts to Goodness, Than to Enlighten Their Understandings with Useful Knowledge. : A Short and Clear Abridgement is Also Given of Sacred and Profane History, and Some Lessons in Geography. : The Useful is Blended Throughout with the Agreeable, the Whole Being Interspersed with Proper Reflections and Moral Tales. Vol. I&#91;-II&#93;|year = 1800}}</ref>

===In film===
* ''[[The Governess]]'' is a 1998 British [[period piece|period]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] written and directed by [[Sandra Goldbacher]].
* Maggie Evans/Victoria Winters is hired to be governess to David Collins in the 2012 film [[Dark Shadows (film)|''Dark Shadows'']].
*''[[Miss Mary (1986 film)|Miss Mary]]'' (1986) stars [[Julie Christie]] as the eponymous English governess in pre-Peron Argentina.
*[[The Sound of Music (film)|''The Sound of Music'']] (1965) stars [[Julie Andrews]] as [[Maria von Trapp]]. Set in Austria in 1938, a young woman studying to become a nun, is sent to become the governess to the seven Trapp children.

===In television===
*Soap opera ''[[Dark Shadows]]'' featured the character Victoria Winters as the governess to David Collins.
*  In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', Captain [[Kathryn Janeway]] spends recreation time playing the role of a governess, Lucille Davenport, on the [[holodeck]]
* The Victorian version of [[Clara Oswald]] in the 2012 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' Christmas special ''[[The Snowmen]]'' was a governess to Captain Latimer's children.