“Bronte’s finest novel.”Virginia Woolfe “It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.”George Eliot The book? Villette by Charlotte Bronte. As longtime readers of this here space know, I have long had a deep loathing of Jane Eyre. (More about that anon.) And so saying that Villette is a superior novel is potentially damning with faint praise. So, let us start with a declarative: Villette is good, really good, well worth … [Read more...] about Villette (and Jane Eyre)
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