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Villette tells the story of parentless, friendless Lucy Snowe, who flees an unhappy past in England to begin a new life as a teacher at a boarding school in the small French town of Villette. Soon her struggle for independence is challenged by both her friendship with a worldly English doctor and her feelings for an autocratic schoolmaster. Bronte's strikingly modern heroine must decide whether there is any man in her society with whom she can live and still be free.