Charlotte Bronte'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, Bronte's last. Modelled on Bronte'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
Bronte's own time in Brussels.
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