Victorian age
orphan girl.
Shirley, published in 1849 a social novel, set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-1812, during the industrial
depression resulting from the Napoleonic wars amd the War 1812, set against backdrop of the Luddite
uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.
Villette, published 1853 after an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the
fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwilligly pulled into both adventure and
romance, acute tracing of Lucy's psychology, use of Gothic doubling to represent externally what her
protagonist ise suffering internally.
The Professor, written before Jane Eyre, rejected by many publishing houses, published 1857, story of a
young man(William Crimsworth), describes his maturation, his loves, and his eventual career as a Professor
at an all-girl's school. The story is based upon Charlotte Brontë's experiences in Brussels where se studied
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