Agnes Porter

They cover the period from 1788 to 1814, and her employment by the Goddard family and by Henry Fox-Strangways, 2nd Earl of Ilchester.

Her correspondents included Elizabeth Moser and Valentine Green, author of Triumphs of Reason Exemplified in Seven Tales (1791).

[1] In 1788 Porter moved from Great Yarmouth to be a governess to the daughters of Ambrose Goddard M.P.

[1] Porter went to live with her former pupil Mary Talbot in 1799 at Penrice Castle, where she cared for her children.

Porter's diaries and letters were discovered in Penrice Castle in the 1970s and this resulted in the 1998 publication of A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen.