"One such woman, Nelly Weeton, explained in her journal that, when the people at home learned that she was heading out to work on her own, “the world will perhaps stare and wonder—Let them.”" daily.jstor.org/the-...

The Governess, in Her Own Written Words - JSTOR Daily

Although few women were employed as governesses in Victorian Britain, their potential for social and class transgression left Britons awash with worry.