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Villette (/ v iː ˈ l ɛ t / vee-LET) is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë.After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional Continental city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.
The Professor, A Tale. was the first novel by English author Charlotte Brontë.It was written in 1846 before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses.It was eventually published, posthumously, in 1857, with the approval of Charlotte Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, who took on the task of reviewing and editing the text.
Charlotte Nicholls (née Brontë; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), commonly known as Charlotte Brontë (/ ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /), [1] was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë.It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell).
Later, on 1 April 1841, he was promoted to 'clerk in charge' at Luddendenfoot railway station in West Yorkshire, [3] where his salary increased to £130. [14] In 1842 he was dismissed due to a deficit in the accounts of £11–1s–7d (£11.06) This had probably been stolen by Watson, the porter, who was left in charge when Brontë went drinking.
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Emily Jane Brontë (/ ˈ b r ɒ n t i /, commonly /-t eɪ /; [2] 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) [3] was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.
The author also advises the British to expand into Africa from Fernando Po, where, Christine Alexander notes, the Brontë children locate the Great Glass Town. [42] Their knowledge of geography was completed by Goldsmith's Grammar of General Geography , which the Brontës owned and annotated heavily.