Charlotte Brontë called on her own experience in writing her third novel, Villette. Like her other novels, this one contains various autobiographical aspects. Brontë had taught for a time in Brussels at the school of Monsieur and Madame Heger. She… Read More ›
Elizabeth Gaskell’s second novel, Ruth, focused, as had her first, Mary Barton (1848), on a young working-class woman. However, in Ruth she makes a heroine of an unlikely figure in a seamstress who bears an illegitimate child. While other novels… Read More ›
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