Like the 'condition-of-England' novels, the governess novel often involves problems of social class. Which of the following explains why the position of governess lends itself to a novel of class critique?

MCQs on the ways in which the Victorian novel came to grapple with ideas and issues of that time period. And the methods by which the novels of this age represented (and intervened in) social, political, scientific, philosophical, and cultural concerns.