Crazy, or crazy like a fox? A very Victorian fox who is still weirdly obsessed with children, but nonetheless, a fox? Find out what we thought as we discuss Henry James's THE TURN OF THE SCREW, what exactly it meant to be a governess, and the Spiritualism movement of the 19th century.

For more information about governesses, check this out: https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/the-figure-of-the-governess

Recommendations:

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver

Tampa by Alissa Nutting

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Master by Colm Toilbin

The Sherwood Ring by Elizabeth Marie Pope

Other people’s Daughters - the Life and Times of the Governess by Ruth Brandon

For next month we are reading Emily Wilson's New Translation of The Odyssey