Villette

Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.

Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by

The Professor (her posthumously published first novel, of which

Villette is a reworking),

Jane Eyre, and

Shirley.