When Miss Emmie was in Russia – English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution –

“In 1911, at the age of twenty-two and after the manner of her Victorian predecessors, Emma Dashwood set sail from Norwich to be a governess in St Petersburg. By her final return in 1919, she had lived through two Revolutions.

Harvey Pitcher met ‘Miss Emmie’ and some of her like-minded contemporaries – whose experiences of life in Russia between 1910 and 1920 he recounts in this book – when many of them were in their eighties and nineties. …”