Villette is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette in France 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 Lucy’s psychology, particularly Brontë’s use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her protagonist is suffering internally.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB" class="extiw" title="w:en:Charlotte Brontë"><span title="British novelist and poet">Charlotte Brontë</span></a>
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