The reserved Englishwoman Lucy Snowe teaches at a boarding school in the foreign city of Villette, where she navigates loneliness, love, and her own guarded inner life.
Books mentioned in Villette (1)
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith: “In English, they had been under my own charge, and hard work it was to get them to translate rationally a page of _The Vicar of Wakefield_.”