Villette

Name: Villette
Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)

Charlotte Bronte

Oct 2012 · Harper Collins

4 reviews

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Villette is the story of Lucy Snow, a teacher at an all-girls boarding school in Belgium who finds herself caught up in her students' romances, reunited with old friends, and searching for a love of her own. Exploring themes of gender roles, repression, isolation, and religion, Villette is best known for following Lucy's psychological state.

Villette, originally published using Charlotte Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell, was reworked from her first novel The Professor after it was turned down by publishers, and reflects Brontë's own experiences as both a student and teacher at a boarding school. It has been adapted for radio and television, and inspired Jamaica Kincaid's 1990 novel Lucy.

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4 reviews

aditi bharadwaj

January 11, 2018

It definitely takes you back to that time, even though you get a little disappointed at times by Lucy Snowe it still gives you the right philosophy for life and you may not be satisfied with the ending(neither was i😂), but it gives you a lot more for a lifetime.

About the author

Charlotte Brontë, born in 1816, was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, and one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists. She is the author of Villette, The Professor, several collections of poetry, and Jane Eyre, one of English literature's most beloved classics. She died in 1855.

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