The Poor Governess by Barbara Cartland

The Poor Governess Reviews

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  Naksed

  The story of an impoverished but spirited and intelligent parson's daughter who "poses" as a governess to help her friend out of a bind. The friend is being sexually bullied by a frequent guest of the Duke she works for and does not know what to do. If she complains about it to the Duke, she will likely get fired, without a reference. If she is silent, the guest is going to figure out how to trap and rape her. So our heroine promptly packs her gun (lol) and sets out to hunt the hunter. In the midst of the intrigue, she manages to win over her charge (the Duke's somewhat difficult niece) and fall in love with the dashing Duke himself. She manages to get both her men: The would-be rapist gets a heart attack when she shoots him (but misses); And the Duke himself declares himself quite passionately and wins her hand in marriage.
  
  This stood out among Barbara Cartland's identical books because the plucky heroine in this one has dreams of becoming a writer. There is a lot devoted to her using her imagination and her voracious reading experience to construct the plot, setting and characters of her book. It is quite endearing. Too bad she never got past chapter 3 of her book and it is rather uncertain if she will be able to have a writing career now that she is a Duchess!
  
  I will remember this one for the cameo by the Prince of Wales and his mistress Daisy Brooke. They all dazzle the heroine with their Edwardian splendor. The Duke even mistakes the heroine for Mrs. Brooke when they run into each other in a dark corridor and he kisses heroine hungrily, thinking she is his mistress. Later, he tells the heroine the big whopper that he knew it was the heroine all along but having read a little bit about the "Marlborough House Set" and their lover-swapping shenanigans, I call BS :)
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  Girl

  I can read her books in one day they are so addicting and carry you effortlessly right to the end. This book was no different!
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  Ririn

  barbara cartland is my guilty pleasure... on the second thought, why do I have to feel guilty? well, I'm not :)
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  Aarathi Burki

  This book started on a good note a heroine who is not scared to take risks for her friends, ambitious, eager to write and publish a novel.
  When she arrives as a governess in place of her friend at the Marquis house she is quite stunned at the grandeur and it’s richness, she slowly befriends her pupil and they get on very well but I felt there was hardly any indication of her falling in love with the Marquis or vice versa until they confess in the end, they hardly spent time with each other barring early morning horse rides. I would understand heroine falling Ivor with Marquis but he who has the best of women around him falling for a poor governess looked far fetching and unbelievable
  The story started on a good not but then got boring and unreal
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  Toomtam Dee

  good
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  Karina

  Ketemu Novel Barbara Cartland ini ga sengaja karena pas mau order komik di e- commerce lihat judul novel ini kok menarik langsung aja pesan, novel historical romance yang ditulis tahun 1983 (39th yang lalu), ternyata setelah cari tahu tentang Barbara Cartland ini adalah penulis spesialisasi novel historical romance sejak tahun 1922 dan fakta menariknya adalah anaknya yg bernama Raine merupakan Ibu tiri Lady Diana, kebetulan Lady Di saat remaja adalah penggemar novel Barbara Cartland..
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  Beralih ke cerita novel iniy, Lara gadis piatu yang tinggal bersama sang ayah yang berprofesi sebagai pendeta ini mengalami kesulitan keuangan, dia harus menjalani hidup dengan amat sederhana walaupun mendiang sang ibu adalah keturunan bangsawan namun kekayaan keluarganya habis disebabkan gaya hidup boros kakeknya, ketika Jane sahabat masa kecilnya yang berprofesi sebagai guru private mengunjungi Lara dan mencurahkan isi hati dan keadaannya selama bekerja, awalnya jane baik2 saja bekerja di rumah bangsawan tersebut, sang tuan rumah dan sang murid sangat menyenangkan walaupun menurutnya muridnya kurang cerdas, namun kenyamanannya terganggu ketika Jane mengalami godaan dan pelecehan dari lord magor pria hidung belang sehingga dia begitu takut kembali ke rumah tsb, dari sinilah cerita lara berawal karena bermaksud membantunya lara memberikan ide agar jane berpura2 terkena campak dan selama 3 minggu Lara dapat menggantikannya, kebetulan karena lara sedang membut novel dia amat sgt butuh informasi lengkap kehidupan bangsawan, dengan surat rekomendasi yg dibuatnya sendiri lara memberanikan diri ke sana.
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  Kalo kalian suka dengan cerita Jane Eyre pasti suka dengan novel iniy, karena kisahnya agak mirip hanya saja tidak begitu banyak konflik dan lebih ringan namun cukup romantis,cara penulisannya saya suka karena vibesnya terasa baca novel klasik abad 19, jadi tidak terkesan modern sama sekali.
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  Saya berikan 4/5 🌟 untuk The Poor Governess.
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  Dorothy

  A sweet story, as always.
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  Elizabeth

  3.5 stars. Enjoyable, but the romance was a bit rushed on the hero's part.
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  Rümeysa

  the first story was okay, the second one was bad.
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  Louise Leonard

  Much feistier heroine than usual. She's even a redhead.
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  Antonella Gagliano

  Titolo in lingua italiana La trama di un sogno