Villette
Description of the book
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.