From the rear cover
Charlotte Bront's contemporary George Eliot wrote of Villette, "There is something almost preternatural in its power." The deceptive stillness and security of a girls' school provide the setting for this 1853 novel, Bront's last. Modelled on Bront's own experiences as a student and teacher in Brussels, Villette is the sombre but engrossing story of Lucy Snowe, an unmarried Englishwoman making her way in a culture deeply foreign to her. The heroine's relationships with the fiery professor M. Paul, the cool Englishman Dr. John, and the school's powerful headmistress, Madame Beck, are described in her compelling and enigmatic first-person narration.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. The many contextual documents include contemporary writings on surveillance and espionage, anti-Catholicism, and working women, as well as letters describing Bront's own time in Brussels.
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- Title Villette
- Author Charlotte Brontë
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 648
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ont.
- Date December 16, 2005
- ISBN 9781551114613
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
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