Villette

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novel psychological novel

Villette is a psychological novel by Charlotte Brontë that follows the emotionally complex journey of Lucy Snowe as she seeks independence and identity while teaching at a girls’ school in a fictional Belgian town.

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Villette canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf novel ⓘ
psychological novel ⓘ
author Charlotte Brontë ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
employerOfProtagonist Madame Beck ⓘ
explores inner emotional life of the heroine ⓘ
firstPublicationYear 1853 ⓘ
followedBy the Professor ⓘ
surface form: The Professor
hasAdaptation television adaptation ⓘ
hasCharacter Dr. John Graham Bretton ⓘ
Ginevra Fanshawe ⓘ
Lucy Snowe ⓘ
M. Paul Emanuel ⓘ
Madame Beck ⓘ
hasLiteraryForm prose ⓘ
hasReligiousConflict Protestantism vs Catholicism ⓘ
hasSubgenre autobiographical fiction ⓘ
hasTitleCharacter Lucy Snowe ⓘ
influencedBy Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryGenre Gothic fiction ⓘ
bildungsroman ⓘ
psychological fiction ⓘ
literaryPeriod Victorian literature ⓘ
mainCharacter Dr. John Graham Bretton ⓘ
Ginevra Fanshawe ⓘ
Lucy Snowe ⓘ
M. Paul Emanuel ⓘ
Madame Beck ⓘ
narrativePointOfView first-person ⓘ
narrator Lucy Snowe ⓘ
originalMedium print ⓘ
precededBy Shirley ⓘ
protagonist Lucy Snowe ⓘ
protagonistOccupation teacher ⓘ
publisher Smith, Elder & Co. ⓘ
publisherLocation London, England ⓘ
surface form: London
schoolType girls' school ⓘ
setInInstitution boarding school ⓘ
setting fictional town of Villette ⓘ
settingCountry Belgium ⓘ
targetAudience adult readers ⓘ
theme female independence ⓘ
identity ⓘ
isolation ⓘ
psychological realism ⓘ
religion ⓘ
unrequited love ⓘ

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Charlotte Brontë → notableWork → Villette ⓘ
Shirley → followedBy → Villette ⓘ
Currer Bell → notableWork → Villette ⓘ
Haworth Parsonage, Haworth, Yorkshire → notableWorkCreatedHere → Villette ⓘ
subject surface form: Haworth Parsonage