Furthermore, the character of Graham Bretton is widely acknowledged to have been modelled upon Brontë's publisher, George Murray Smith. Paul Emanuel is closely based upon that of M. Most literary historians believe that the character of M. After several publishers had rejected it, Brontë reworked the material and made it the basis of Villette.
She finally returned to her family's rectory in Haworth, England, in January 1844.Ĭharlotte drew on this source material for her first (albeit unsuccessful) novel The Professor. She became lonely and homesick, and fell in love with M. Her second stay in Brussels was not a happy one. Elizabeth had joined the Brontë family to care for the children after the death of her sister, their mother Maria Brontë, née Maria Branwell.Ĭharlotte returned, alone, to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the pensionnat. The sisters' time at the pensionnat was cut short when their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, died in October 1842. In return for board and tuition, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. There they enrolled in a pensionnat (boarding school) run by M. In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. It was preceded in writing by The Professor (her posthumously published first novel, of which Villette is a reworking, though still not very similar), Jane Eyre, and Shirley. Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel published during her life. 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 father encouraged the children to spend time in nature on the moors.Villette ( / v iː ˈ l ɛ t/) is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë.
Her father had been appointed as perpetual curate there, meaning that he and his family could live in the parsonage as long as he continued his work there. All six children were born before the family moved in April 1820 to the 5-room parsonage at Haworth on the moors of Yorkshire that they would call home for most of their lives. She was born at the parsonage in Thornton, Yorkshire, where her father was serving. Patrick Brontë and his wife, Maria Branwell Brontë.
Her masterpiece, Jane Eyre, remains immensely popular and critically acclaimed today.īrontë was the third of six siblings born in six years to the Rev.
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