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Loading... When Miss Emmie Was in Russia: English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution (original 1977; edition 2011)by Harvey Pitcher (Author)
Work InformationWhen Miss Emmie was in Russia: English governesses before, during and after the October Revolution by Harvey Pitcher (1977)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is one of the most entertaining travel books you will ever read but you will learn some British and Russian history along the way. It is the story of the English women who left their homes to find employment as governesses to wealthy Russian families. Most were well educated and from good families but through circumstance needed to actually earn a living. There were few occupations suitable (or even available) to these women other than teaching as a governess and many went to Russia if employment was not available at home. Their stories are fascinating. There is a novel by Piers Paul Read called Alice in Exile (see my review) which is the story of one such woman and also a great thriller. ( ) no reviews | add a review
A Russian Upstairs, Downstairs, but one scented with the cordite and fear of revolution. Miss Emmie is an intimate and revealing portrait of pre-Revolutionary Russian society which, contrary to received wisdoms, reveals a complex, liberal, and humane society, full of enormous potential and past achievement. It is also the biography of five intrepid women who, by traveling abroad and working as governesses in Russia, achieved an intellectual dignity, a purpose, and an authority that was denied them in their homeland. The extraordinary personal adventures of these women, as they negotiate the turmoil and terrifying anarchy of Revolution and Civil War, turns the book into a page-turning thriller. No library descriptions found. |
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