Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-148) and index.
Contents
Domesticity and duplicity : the rhetoric of the higher education movement -- Living on the moon : Jane Eyre and the limits of self-education -- From English governess to Orientalist scholar : female pedagogy and power in Anna Leonowens's The English governess at the Siamese court -- "At once narrow and promiscuous" : Emily Davies, George Eliot, and Middlemarch -- "Strange [in]difference of sex" : Thomas Hardy and the temptations of androgyny.