Echoing the novelist's own experience, Villette (1853) follows Lucy Snowe, a young English woman, as she takes up a teaching post in Belgium, wins the respect of pupils and headmistress, but also becomes romantically entangled with a fellow teacher.

Echoing the novelist's own experience, Villette (1853) follows Lucy Snowe, a young English woman, as she takes up a teaching post in Belgium, wins the respect of pupils and headmistress, but also becomes romantically entangled with a fellow teacher.