Charlotte Brontë is perhaps best remembered for writing Jane Eyre. Yet it is her darker psychological novel, Villette, that reveals the most about the author herself. Like Charlotte, the book's narrator Lucy Snowe moves to Brussels as a governess where she falls in love with a man she knows she can never have. While some criticise Villette for its unlikely heroine and ambiguous ending, others see it as a masterpiece. Sheila takes a closer look at Villette with Jude Morgan, the author of The Taste of Sorrow, and critic and author of The Bronte Myth Lucasta Miller.
