![]() ![]() Not only is Villette a darker book, but the popular image of the Brontës does not readily associate them with a continental girls’ boarding school. The general reading public has always voted unequivocally for the bestselling Jane Eyre. If Jane Eyre is Pride and Prejudice, Villette is Persuasion. As one of them said, you often come to appreciate it later in life. When an audience vote was taken, the earlier and better-known book won, but only by a small majority the two writers defending Villette had been eloquent in its praise. 40) and Charlotte Brontë’s last novel, Villette. In 2016, in a debate organized by the Brontë Society, a panel of four writers discussed the relative merits of Jane Eyre (see SF no. ![]()
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