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Villette - Helen Cooper

Description: ISBN 0140434798 / Genre: Politics / Society / Philosophy / Author: Helen Cooper, Charlotte Bronte / Edition: New edition / Paperback / ... more

Villette - Helen Cooper ... 672 Pages / Book is published 2004-06-24 by Penguin Classics

Newest Review: ... but very weird 'The Professor'). The titular Villette is a small Belgian town where respectable-but-penniless English ... more

... heroine Lucy Snowe travels to find work teaching at a girls' boarding school. Outwardly self-contained and controlled, Lucy is determined to remain independent and uncowed by circumstances including suspicious, plotting and bullying colleagues, stupid and deceitful students and her own tumultuous inner feelings. There is a large autobiographical element, as CB spent time as a governess in Brussels. Her unhappiness there clearly colours her view of the Belgians - the anti-European bias is blatant with Belgian girls all ...more

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Villette - Helen Cooper: Charlotte Bronte classic - better than Jane Eyre! (217 words)
by - written on 06/01/09 (Very useful, 20 readings)
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Ask most people to name one Charlotte Bronte and the chances are they'll say 'Jane Eyre'. Ask them to name another and they'll probably either draw a blank. But CB also wrote another classic, 'Villette' (as well as the rather dull 'Shirley' and the fascinating but very weird 'The Professor'). The titular Villette is a small Belgian town where respectable-but-penniless English heroine Lucy Snowe travels to find work teaching at a girls' boarding school. Outwardly self-contained and controlled, Lucy is determined to remain independent and uncowed by circumstances including suspicious, plotting and bullying colleagues, stupid and deceitful students ... Read the complete review