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“I don’t want to decry Jane Eyre—this isn’t an anti-Jane Eyre stance—but I think that it’s a fairy story…In Villette, Brontë’s become a much more mature writer.” Read more...
Salley Vickers, Novelist
“I have been reading Villette, a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power.”
George Eliot, quoted in Novelists on Novelists, edited by David Dowling
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