Villette Study Guide

Related Links on Villette

The Brontë Family - An overview with photographs of the original title pages of many Brontë sisters' books. This is part of the University of Virginia's Gothic Novel gateway.

Literary Encyclopedia's article on Villette - A short article on the novel, including some biographical information on Brontë.

French-Engish Translation - Dictionary.com has a free French-to-English translator, in which you paste or type text into a box and it gives you a word-for-word translation. It will not give you a completely accurate translation, because it merely translates individual words and not idioms, syntax, or sentence structure. With the large amount of French in Villette, this site may be helpful to those who do not read French and would at least like to know the main sense of the conversations that are left untranslated in this novel.

Modern Library's Introduction to Villette - An interesting short introduction, with discussion questions and biographical information.

Discussing Books Summary of Villette - An excellent, insightful summary of the novel, including comparisons to Brontë's other writing.