Villette (Illustrated)

Villette is the story of Lucy Snowe, the narrator and main character. She is a quiet, self-reliant, intelligent, 23-year-old woman. Lucy has, as Miss Ginevra Fanshawe asserts, "no attractive accomplishments - no beauty." She seems to have no living relatives. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Though usually res...