![]() ![]() John Graham Bretton, a friend of Lucy’s in her childhood, also happens to be working in Villette. ![]() Lucy, however, comes to excel at teaching and to love it.ĭr. She is elevated to the position of English teacher, though she has no qualifications for it and has a poor command of the French language spoken in Villette. During her time as the bonne d'enfants, she impresses her employer, Madame Beck, with her modesty and excellent English. ![]() She becomes a nursery governess to the three daughters of the proprietress of a large school for girls. She goes to the kingdom of Labassecour (perhaps modeled on Belgium) and, through a series of very fortunate occurrences, manages to land herself a job and a place to live on her first night in the town of Villette. She is left destitute after the death of her mysterious family and, after briefly being a nurse-companion, takes herself off on a blind, daring trip to the Continent. Lucy Snowe, a young Englishwoman of the educated class, narrates the story of her life-in a particularly partisan and sometimes unreliable manner. ![]()
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