Villette
By: Charlotte Brontë ; edited by Margaret Smith and Herbert Rosengarten ; with an introduction and notes by Tim Dolin.
Contributors: Smith, Margaret, 1931-; Rosengarten, Herbert.; Dolin, Tim, 1959-
Edition: New ed.
Series: Oxford world's classics; Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: British -- Belgium -- Fiction.; Separation (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Women teachers -- Fiction.; Brussels (Belgium) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Beck's school in 'Villette'. Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Beck's jealous interference to assert her right to love and to be loved." "Based in part on Charlotte Bronte's experience in Brussels ten years earlier, Villette (1853) is coloured by her sadness and isolation after the deaths of her brother and sisters in 1848 and 1849, and by the traumatic circumstances of her subsequent emergence, alone, into public literary life. From these events Bronte fashions an autobiographical novel that is also a powerful examination of literary celebrity and female authorship in mid-Victorian Britain."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-538).