Lucy Snowe, in flight from an unhappy past, leaves England and finds work as a teacher in Madame Becks school in "Villette". Strongly drawn to the fiery autocratic schoolmaster Monsieur Paul Emanuel, Lucy is compelled by Madame Becks jealous interference to assert her right to love and to be loved. This edition also consists of Introduction, Notes on the Text, Bibliography, A Chronology of the Author and Explanatory Notes.