villette

Villette by Charlotte Bronte

Led by Victoria Trenchard

BRLSI’s Victorian Literature Group discusses Charlotte Brontë’s novel Villette, exploring loneliness, love, and the struggle for independence in a pensionnat in Brussels. Villette follows the story of Lucy Snowe, a young Englishwoman who moves to the fictional town of “Villette” (her name for Brussels) to teach at a girls’ school after a series of personal…