Villette is Charlotte Brontes last novel, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance.
However, the novel is celebrated not so much for its plot as in its acute tracing of Lucys psychology, particularly Brontes use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering internally. This novel is a kind of anguish of the soul, Charlotte Brontes autobiography, her mature thoughts and insights, anguish of minds and stoicism...
