Villette (edit title)

Dakota edited the characters of Villette 12 days ago.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Lucy Snowe: English woman who due to family tragedy goes to teach at a school abroad.
• marked the description of Lucy Snowe as not a spoiler

Amanda approved Timothy Gray’s request to change the contributors of Villette Wednesday, October 7 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Sandra Kemp: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Tim Dolin: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Pauline Nestor: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Herbert Rosengarten: (Primary None)

Timothy Gray approved Kosznai’s request to change the contributors of Villette Wednesday, September 30 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Charlotte Bronte: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Margaret Smith: (Primary Author)

Kevin approved ’s request to combine 2 books, including Villette, Thursday, September 24 2009.

submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Villette, Thursday, September 24 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the contributors of Villette Monday, September 14 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Sandra Kemp: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Tim Dolin: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Pauline Nestor: (Primary None)
• Edited a contributor: Herbert Rosengarten: (Primary None)

Kosznai edited the contributors of Villette Monday, September 14 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• Edited a contributor: Charlotte Bronte: (Primary NoneAuthor)
• Removed a contributor: Margaret Smith: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the description of Villette Friday, July 31 2009.

• "Villette ! Villette ! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power." Arguably Brontë's most refined and deeply felt work, Villette draws on her profound loneliness following the deaths of her three siblings. Lucy Snowe, the narrator of Villette, flees from an unhappy past in England to begin a new file as a teacher at a French boarding school in the great cosmopolitan capital of Villette. Soon Lucy's struggle for independence is overshadowed by both her freindship with a wordly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Brontë's strikingly modern heroine must decide if there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free. "Villette is an amazing book," observed novelist Susan Fromberg Schaeffer. "Written before psychoanalysis came into being, Villette is nevertheless a psychoanalytic work—a psychosexual study of its heroine, Lucy Snowe. Written before the philosophy of existentialism was formulated, the novel's view of the world can only be described as existential. . . . Today it is read and discussed more intensely than Charlotte Brontë's other novels, and many critics now beleive it to be a true master-piece, a work of genius that more than fulfilled the promise of Jane Eyre." Indeed, Virginia Woolf judged Villette to be Brontë's "finest novel."

Shelfari edited the contributors of Villette Tuesday, July 21 2009.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Villette Thursday, July 16 2009.

• MY godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.