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I’d be lying if I said I couldn’t see it being turned into Jane Eyre for the modern age.”. She also aims to win business from British families living oversees who do not want to send their children to boarding school.Ms Suckling said: “A governess has to be resourceful – someone who can cope with her own company. But also someone who has something extra to offer, such as sport or singing.”Victoria Smolen, 25, was the governess to Ms Suckling’s children “I worried that I’d be treated like a servant,” she said. “But the children were well behaved and I spent two months in Tuscany It’s actually quite glamorous.”I kept a journal.

The children combined formal learning with structured play and the experiment worked well.The agency is aiming its governesses at expatriate and foreign families who want to make sure that their children carry on speaking and writing English.Ms Suckling said she hoped to recruit students and newly qualified graduate teachers to work during the summer holidays. But she also admitted that ballet was producing too many dancers. “So many young people are graduating, there aren’t enough jobs,” she said. “There are a large percentage who don’t make it and how do we look after them? We don’t want them to go away feeling terrible.”.

The Victorian governess who lived with and taught the sons and daughters of wealthy 19th-century families is returning to educate a new generation of children. Famously portrayed by Charlotte Bronte in the character of the long-suffering Jane Eyre, the governess largely disappeared in the 20th century.
But now the new English Governess agency aims to provide British families around the world with “residential teachers and educated nannies”.Catherine Suckling, the agency’s founder, told The Times Educational Supplement there was “a niche in the market”.”It’s a teaching job, but there’s also child care involved.”She set up the agency after employing a student teacher to look after her two children during the summer holidays. With Darcey Bussell and Jonathan Cope stepping down from full-time dancing this year, the Royal Ballet will only have one British principal, or lead dancer, in Edward Watson.The Royal Ballet has increasingly looked abroad for its principals, hiring the Cuban Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo from Spain, Zenaida Yanovsky from France and Alina Cojocaru from Romania.Dance UK, the lobbying body for British dance, is in talks with Olympic organisers over whether it might be possible to share facilities such as the proposed medical science centre for athletes, which they regard as exactly the kind of resource dancers also require.Assis Carreiro, the director of DanceEast who organised the conference, said ballet had much to learn from sports science. Ballet is close to my heart and that’s why I want to bring performance psychology to dancers. I reflect on my professional career and can see how a range of psychological skills would be beneficial [to dancers today].”Sport England is planning talent-development schemes in preparation for the London 2012 Olympics, and dance should learn from its example, he said.He believes such thinking could help develop more British stars. Schools focused on technical, physical and artistic issues but neglected the mental training designed to develop the necessary resilience and determination to succeed.Determination is particularly vital in the MTV-generation world accustomed to quick results because dancers need up to a decade of training before they have any chance of success.