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lottiezeb 's review for:

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

My recipe for the Ultimate Brontë Novel:

+Charlotte's incredibly-written female protagonists with their complexity, intelligence, agency and insistence on their right to exist with respect and live lives of meaning despite their poverty and gender
-Charlotte's inexplicably dogshit taste in men. NO NEGGING CHAUVINISTS ALLOWED!!
+Anne's groundbreaking feminism on subjects ranging from the subjection of poor working women to martial abuse
+Anne's Very Nice Boy love interests
-Anne's pious moralizing
+Emily's gothic WTF-ery
-Emily's penchant for naming multiple characters the same thing, creating confusing family trees
and making every character a miserable asshole

The Ultimate Brontë Novel. You're welcome.