“The Governess” (1854)

“The Arrival of a New Governess in a Merchant House” (1866)

Young girl reading

Fantin-Latour, “The Reader” (1861)

Emily, Charlotte, and Anne Brönte

George Eliot

French schoolroom

Elizabeth Fry

“Elizabeth Fry reading to prisoners at Newgate Prison” (1823)

Amalie Sieveking Octavia Hill

Florence Nightingale

Military hospital at Scutari

“The Lady with the Lamp”

Florence Nightingale and nurses (1886)

Florence Nightingale in old age

charity sisters

Christian school at Versailles

Sophie Barat, foundress Philippine DuchesneReligious of the Sacred Heart

Emilie de Vialar, foundressSisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition

Anne-Marie Javouhey, foundressSisters of St. Joseph of Cluny