num_pages: 472
description: Alternate cover edition for 9781853260728. Arguably Bronte's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her experiences as a student in Brussels as well as her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.
language: English
title: Villette
titlecomplete: Villette
characters: Dr. John Graham Bretton, Paulina Mary Home, Ginevra Laura Fanshawe, M. Paul Carl David Emanuel, Mrs. Louisa Lucy Bretton, Madame Modeste Maria Beck, Lucy Snowe
genres: Literature, British Literature, Classics, Novels, Gothic, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 70967
publisher: Wordsworth Editions