English governesses

British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)

British novelist and poet (1820-1849)

British nurse (1865-1915)

Third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

Mary Shelley's stepsister, mother of Byron's daughter (1798–1879)

italian model (1800-1886)

British noble; (1725-1813)

English duchess, governess to Princess Victoria, the later Queen Victoria and cultivator of exotic plants (1787-1866)

English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)

German-British polymath and historian

English noble

English novelist (1772-1844)

English religious writer and autobiographer

Welsh novelist and poet.

British entomologist and botanical collector (1881-1969)