num_pages: 17
description: With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.
language: English
title: Villette
titlecomplete: Villette
characters: M. Paul Carl David Emanuel, Lucy Snowe, Dr. John Graham Bretton, Mrs. Louisa Lucy Bretton, Paulina Mary Home, Madame Modeste Maria Beck, Ginevra Laura Fanshawe
genres: Historical Fiction, Novels, Gothic, Literature, Victorian, Classics, British Literature, Romance, Fiction, 19th Century
ratings_count: 70967
publisher: Ulverscroft