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Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing, yet in spite of adversity and disappointment, Lucy survives to recount the unstinting vision of a turbulent life's journey: a journey that is one of the most insightful fictional studies of a woman's consciousness in English literature.
First published in 1853, Villette was inspired by Charlotte Brontë's own experiences as a governess in Brussels, and is often thought to be her most accomplished and deeply felt work, eclipsing even Jane Eyre in critical acclaim.