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Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Do 19th century governesses count (Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey)?


message 2: by [deleted user] (new)

And what about like court services, like poison tester? Not domestic per se but still they're "the help" ^.^


message 3: by Saturday's (new)

Saturday's Child Hi Themis-Athena and Angela I say yes, why not please add your books as a governess and any one who assists in court services do help. Cheers :)


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Cool. Will do! :)


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

Amazing, thanks!


message 6: by Mark (new)

Mark little question. Why do people not check before putting new books on cos 'The sound and the fury' is on twice as is 'Cinderella' and 'The help'. Fun list though


message 7: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (last edited Aug 11, 2011 10:43AM) (new)

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads I combined duplicates; that should have gotten them.

ETA: Cinderella is still on twice; the two books are by different authors.


Themis-Athena (Lioness at Large) Susanna wrote: "... Cinderella is still on twice; the two books are by different authors."

Yep -- Cinderella is one of the oldest fairy tales around; there are versions as old as going back to the world of the pharaohs. Due largely to the varying oral traditions in the various countries where the tale was passed down through the generations, the versions recorded, respectively, by Perrault and by the Brothers Grimm differ in certain respects both from each other and from yet other (older) versions of the story, so in addition to the fact that they shouldn't be combined because their principal authors (or rather: writers recording the story) are different, arguably they also contain (somewhat) different versions content-wise and therefore shouldn't be combined on those grounds.

For more, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella


Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Makes sense.


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