women teachers

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women teachers

Villette

2004
Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.

A bend in the road

2002
After losing his wife in a car accident, a distraught Miles Ryan is able to find love again with his son's teacher, but they soon realize they are linked by a shocking secret.

The prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1999
A teacher at a girls' school in Edinburgh, Scotland, Miss Jean Brodie was a woman of ideas, wit, and charm who had a lover. The students she chose as her special friends were called the "Brodie set." One of them would betray her.

Wit

1999
When English professor Vivian Bearing is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she is forced to reevaluate her life.

The folded earth

2012
Desperate to leave tragedy behind Maya seeks refuge as a teacher in a remote Indian mountain village, where she helps a young girl to correspond with a lover until outside forces hijack local elections and violently threaten the villagers.

Children and fire

a novel
2011
Protecting her beloved students from the devastating world outside of their 1934 Berlin classroom, Thekla Jansen sacrifices some of her personal freedoms to retain her teaching position until activities within Hitler's early regime test her moral courage.

The miracle worker

2008
William Gibson's play about teacher Annie Sullivan's determined quest to give twelve-year-old Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute, the gift of language.

Christy

1968
In 1912, nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston leaves her comfortable home to teach in a one-room schoolhouse in an isolated area of the Great Smokies.

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