Villette, a novel

Charlotte Brontë’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, Brontë’s last. Modelled on Brontë’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 Brontë’s own time in Brussels. Charlotte Bronte: a brief chronology Villette Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Emily Bronte Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger From The daughters of England / Sarah Stickney Ellis From Olive / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik From Review of Villette / Harriet Martineau From Letter to Lucy Baxter / William Makepeace Thackeray From The women of England / Sarah Stickney Ellis From Woman in the nineteenth century / Margaret Fuller Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey From The enfranchisement of women / Harriet Taylor Mill Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell From A woman's thoughts about women / Dinah Maria Mulock Craik The post office espionage case, 1844-45 From Reflections suggested by the career of the late premier / Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine From The professor / Charlotte Bronte From Aurora Floyd / Mary Elizabeth Braddon From The maid of Killarney, or Albion and Flora: a modern tale, in which are interwoven some cursory remarks on religion and politics / Patrick Bronte From Awful disclosures of Maria Monk, as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, two as a black nun in the Hotel Dieu nunnery at Montreal / Maria Monk From Maynooth / Thomas De Quincey From Priests, women, and families / Charles Neaves Papal aggression From outside the Flaminian gate / Nicholas Wiseman **In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Brontë's crowning achievement.** With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. "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 headmistres, Madame Beck, are described in her 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."--BOOK JACKET Modelled on Charlotte 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. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction by Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky. Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief

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brontë’s Finest Novel.