Charlotte Brontë · 1853
Lucy Snowe teaches at a girls' school in the city of Villette. Read Villette by Charlotte Brontë page by page and explore its network of 1,044 people, places…
My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton. Her husband’s family had been residents there for generations, and bore, indeed, the name of their birthplace—Bretton of Bretton: whether by coincidence, or because some remote ancestor had been a personage of sufficient importance to leave his name to his neighbourhood, I know not.
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