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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The orphan Jane Eyre makes her way from a cruel aunt's house to a bleak charity school, and on to Thornfield Hall as governess, where she falls in love with the brooding Mr Rochester and discovers the madwoman locked in his attic. Brontë sets the novel across a real northern England drawn from her own world: the moorland houses and schools of Yorkshire and the Peak, from Lowood's cold dormitories to Thornfield's fire and the wild moors to which Jane flees.
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Villette
Charlotte Brontë
Brussels, thinly disguised as Villette in the kingdom of Labassecour. Brontë mapped her own two years teaching at the Pensionnat Heger on the Rue d'Isabelle into it: the boarding school, the old Flemish streets, the park across the way, the cathedral where she once made confession. It brings Belgium into the atlas.
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