Villette (1853) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë .
Inspired by Brontë\'s experience traveling and teaching English in Brussels, where she went at the age of 26 with her sister Emily before returning alone the following year.
It was the third and final novel she published in her lifetime, followed only by The Professor , her posthumously released first novel which was largely reconceived and rewritten as Villette .
Villette (1853) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë