Jane Eyre joins the jet set

The governess is back. More than 160 years after Jane Eyre fell in love with her boss, Mr Rochester, parents are welcoming bright young women into their homes to help with their children’s education.

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Adam Caller runs Tutors International, which provides qualified teachers for long-term live-ins. He is currently advertising a £48,000-a-year post to teach two boys for a year in Tuscany.

“One family in Atlanta are planning to employ two tutors and pay them £108,000 a year each, while giving them their own apartment and car and travelling with the family on their private jet,” he said. “For that post we are putting forward someone who has graduated from Oxford and Harvard and who currently works at Yale.”