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Minta’s expression indicated that the name Villette provided little in the way of illumination, and he added, She was formerly the marquise de Villette, and a great favorite of Voltaire.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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Minta’s expression indicated that the name Villette provided little in the way of illumination, and he added, She was formerly the marquise de Villette, and a great favorite of Voltaire.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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Show in Villette, Diane Hoeveler examines yet another shunt in the constant interchange between visual technologies and the novel during the period.
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Before receiving yours, I had felt, and expressed to Mr. Smith, reluctance to come in the way of 'Ruth;' not that I think SHE would suffer from contact with 'Villette' -- we know not but that the damage might be the other way; but I have ever held comparisons to be odious, and would fain that neither I nor my friends should be made subjects for the same.
Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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Diane Long Hoeveler, "Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern Show in Villette"
Article Abstracts 2005
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"Villette" -- Misunderstanding with Miss Martineau -- Letter on Mr. Thackeray's portrait -- Visit of the Bishop of Ripon to Haworth
Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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"Villette" -- which, if less interesting as a mere story than "Jane
Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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"Jane Eyre" will supply the demand for melodrama in its best form, while "Villette," and possibly "Shirley," may carry some girls far enough with Charlotte Bronte to incline them to read her life by Mrs. Gaskell.
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Charlotte, also, was very profitably speechless; under her eyes 'Villette' was taking shape.
Emily Brontë 1900
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Her narrow fervid nature accounted as simple annoyance the trivial scenes and personages touched with immortal sympathy and humour in 'Villette' and
Emily Brontë 1900
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