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I have just finished chapter 7. It is not bad actually. I have heard it is based on the author's unrequited love for a professor in Belgium. The first few chapters are a foreshadowing of that. Then the protagonist, Lucy Snowe, decides to travel abroad on her own to find work. I think she has £15 with her. I thought that was bold. I multiply Victorian money by 100x to get an idea how much it would be today. Maybe 200x would be a better multiplier after the last few years' inflation. £1500 would not last that long. I read Jane Eyre at school for O level, when I did not like it. 1) it is romantic fiction for girls; 2) it is a Victorian doorstep. That makes it double girly. I read it later, when I liked it more, but I still thought bits of it were rubbish. I have also read Shirley, which is one of very few Victorian 'Factory' novels. Elizabeth Gaskell wrote two, Charles Dickens, one and Shirley was the other. I did not like it very much. It did not have a central theme. It meandered here and there. Charlotte Bronte had suffered the loss of her brother and at least one sister by then, and I do not think she was in top form. So far, Villette is a bit tighter. I am rooting for Lucy Snowe, although I hear things do not work out.
