In one novel, a character with this profession states, “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me,” when her employer tries to stop her from leaving Thornfield Hall. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this profession which one character enters after she leaves Lowood School due to a typhus outbreak. That character educates Adèle Varens as part of this profession.
ANSWER: governess [prompt on nanny or babysitter or tutor]
[10e] The title character of this author’s novel Jane Eyre works as a governess. She published under the pen name Currer Bell as part of a group of three sisters.
ANSWER: Charlotte Brontë [prompt on Brontë; reject “Anne Brontë” or “Emily Brontë”]
[10h] The youngest Brontë sister, Anne, wrote this novel about the title governess who meets her husband Edward Weston while working for the Murray family.
ANSWER: Agnes Grey
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