Villette / Bront?, Charlotte

Villette was Charlotte Bronte's name for Brussels, Belgium. Charlotte, and her sister, Emily, had studied there in 1842, and Charlotte returned in 1843 to teach there for a year. She hoped the experience would help her to set up a school in her home town of Haworth in Yorkshire, England. Eventually she wrote a novel, with fictional characters, about her time in Brussels.

Presents the story of Lucy Snowe, which is loosely based upon Bronte's own personal experiences, and her struggles as a teacher in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette, and includes a chronology of Bronte's life along with explanatory notes.

Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. 'She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.

Lucy Snowe makes her way by teaching, as she unhappily watches John Bretton's infatuation for the flirt, Ginevra Fanshawe. She then falls in love with and transforms the professor, Monsieur Paul Emanuel.