Villette | Characters
Naturally, Lucy Snowe is the most significant (and, in some ways, puzzling character, with her mixture of stoic endurance and fearful imaginings) personage in the book. There is little quarrel with the view that Bronte labored hard (and under unhappy conditions: Her two surviving sisters, and fellow authors, Emily and Anne, had just died, and Charlotte was suffering poor health, depression, and a fear of losing her sight—a terror perhaps brought on by her father's cataract surgery) to create a fully developed protagonist. With the exception of the very sketchy antecedent information...
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