"have to be defined by the roles of either colonized or colonzier."" Critics have also focused on the many intertexts on which the novel draws. Diane Simmons details the way in which the novel draws on John Milton's ""Paradise Lost"" and Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"", noting that Brontë was Kincaid's favorite author. David Yost observes that ""Lucy"" contains many correspondences to another Brontë novel, ""Villette""—including the names of its primary couple (Lucy and Paul), its plot (an au pair adjusting to a foreign culture), its themes (sexual repression of women and self-recreation through art), and its setting (""Villette""'s Paul dies"
"she did not want to leave her ageing father. Thackeray's daughter, writer Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, recalled a visit to her father by Brontë: Brontë's friendship with Elizabeth Gaskell, while not particularly close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote the first biography of Brontë after her death in 1855. Brontë's third novel, the last published in her lifetime, was ""Villette"", which appeared in 1853. Its main themes include isolation, how such a condition can be borne, and the internal conflict brought about by social repression of individual desire. Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding"
"The pretty but unprincipled portress at Madame Beck's boarding school. She is ""smart, trim, and pert"" and ""not a bad sort of person,"" according to Lucy. She likes to be bribed. ""Villette"" begins with its famously passive protagonist, Lucy Snowe, age 14, staying at the home of her godmother Mrs. Bretton in ""the clean and ancient town of Bretton"", in England. Also in residence are Mrs. Bretton's son, John Graham Bretton (whom the family calls Graham), and a young visitor, Paulina Home (who is called Polly). Polly is a peculiar little girl who soon develops a deep devotion to Graham,"
"school in the fictional town of Villette, where she encounters a culture and religion different from her own, and falls in love with a man (Paul Emanuel) whom she cannot marry. Her experiences result in a breakdown but eventually she achieves independence and fulfilment through running her own school. A substantial amount of the novel's dialogue is in the French language. ""Villette"" marked Brontë's return to writing from a first-person perspective (that of Lucy Snowe); the technique she had used in ""Jane Eyre"". Another similarity to ""Jane Eyre"" lies in the use of aspects of her own life as inspiration"
"initially set in the English countryside, and later follows Lucy Snowe to the fictional Belgian town of Villette, a Gothic town where the majority of the action takes place. Villette is modelled upon the city of Brussels and is set in the fictional kingdom of Labassecour (modelled on Belgium). ""Labassecour"" is the French word for farmyard. Lucy Snowe: The narrator and main character of ""Villette"". A quiet, self-reliant, intelligent, 23-year-old woman. Lucy has, as Miss Ginevra Fanshawe asserts, ""no attractive accomplishments – no beauty."" She seems to have no living relatives. Though usually reserved and emotionally self-controlled, Lucy has strong"
"the four siblings in the novels. Lucy is a principal character in three of the seven books (""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"", ""Prince Caspian"", and ""The Voyage of the Dawn Treader""), and a minor character in two others (""The Horse and His Boy"" and ""The Last Battle""). Lucy is portrayed by Georgie Henley in the 2005 film """" and she returned to reprise her role in the 2008 film """". Georgie's elder sister, Rachael Henley, portrays the older Queen Lucy at the end of the first film. Georgie Henley also reprised her role in the 2010 film """","
"The Snow Queen (Lackey novel) The Snow Queen is a 2008 novel by Mercedes Lackey, the fourth book of the ""Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms"" series. As in the previous book, ""Fortune's Fool"", characters from earlier books in the series are either mentioned or appear as secondary characters. Aleksia, Queen of the Northern Lights, is the fairy godmother of the land she rules. She is known to have a heart of ice, hence her title of the ""Snow Queen"". Her duty is to help characters like Kay and Gerda redeem themselves and their sweethearts, gain backbones, and become more"
"Chronicles of Narnia"" over and over again. Lucy Barfield died at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in west London on 3 May 2003, having battled multiple sclerosis for almost 40 years. Lucy Barfield Lucy Barfield (2 November 1935 – 3 May 2003) was the godchild of C.S. Lewis. ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" is dedicated to Lucy, who also lent her name to the book's heroine, Lucy Pevensie. Lewis's letter and the dedication to ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" reads: My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had"
"the main character in its sequel, ""Kushiel's Justice"". The character Lucy Snowe in Charlotte Brontë's novel ""Villette"" is given the nickname Diogenes. Diogenes also features in Part Four of Elizabeth Smart's ""By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept"". He is a figure in Seamus Heaney's ""The Haw Lantern"". In Christopher Moore's """", one of Jesus' apostles is a devotee of Diogenes, complete with his own pack of dogs which he refers to as his own disciples. His story opens the first chapter of Dolly Freed's 1978 book ""Possum Living"". The dog that Paul Dombey befriends in Charles Dickens'"
"Agnes Grey Agnes Grey, A Novel is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's novel ""Jane Eyre"", it addresses what the precarious position of governess entailed and how it affected a young woman."
"that his ""preoccupation with style must have blinded him to the persistence of her moral purpose"" of Agnes Grey. Agnes Grey Agnes Grey, A Novel is the debut novel of English author Anne Brontë (writing under the pen name of Acton Bell), first published in December 1847, and republished in a second edition in 1850. The novel follows Agnes Grey, a governess, as she works within families of the English gentry. Scholarship and comments by Anne's sister Charlotte Brontë suggest the novel is largely based on Anne Brontë's own experiences as a governess for five years. Like her sister Charlotte's"
"The Snow (novel) The Snow, published in 2004, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts. It is set in the present day and, latterly, the near future. It concerns the appearance of a heavy, prolonged fall of snow, which eventually blankets the earth in a layer of snow literally miles thick. The heroine of the story, Tira, is a Londoner who initially survives the snowfall by staying on the surface of the snow. Once the snow begins to bury all the highest buildings, she meets a worker from the London Underground and they both survive by"
"A Daughter of the Snows A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, ""a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie"" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer. The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his"
"which is the third of the film series. The character of Lucy Pevensie was inspired by June Flewett, a devout Catholic London girl evacuated by her convent to The Kilns, Lewis' country home in 1942, and named after Lewis' goddaughter Lucy Barfield, to whom he dedicated The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Lucy is described in the book as being fair-haired: ""But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant."" Lucy was the most faithful of"
"her to achieve this position). Years pass and Snow starts to forget her childhood, though vague memories of her sister and mother continually plague her. She is struck by the jealousy of her aunt who is enraged by the fact that Snow is lovelier than her. The queen orders a hunter to kill Snow, but he spares her and she flees into the forest. Gudied by her faint memories of her mother safe cottage deep within the forest, Snow stumbles upon a cottage that is the home to the seven wicked sons of the dwarf Snow saved so many times"
"Lucy is reactive at best. Yet it is Lucy who truly breaks free of the expected domestic fate."" Jamaica Kincaid's novel ""Lucy"" (1990) draws numerous themes, character names, and plot elements from ""Villette"", both echoing its concern of female repression while also offering an implicit postcolonial critique of the novel's slave-owning love interest. In 1970, the BBC produced a television miniseries based on ""Villette"", directed by Moira Armstrong and written by Lennox Phillips. It starred Judy Parfitt as Lucy Snowe, Bryan Marshall as Dr. John Graham Bretton, Peter Jeffrey as Paul Emanuel, and Mona Bruce as Mme. Beck. In 1999,"
"and discovers her worth ""by giving up her identity and throwing away nearly everything in life that matters."" Bella Swan was often compared to Katniss Everdeen on the publication of ""The Hunger Games"". Bella Swan Isabella Marie ""Bella"" Swan (later Bella Cullen) is a character and the protagonist of the ""Twilight"" series, written by Stephenie Meyer. The ""Twilight"" series, consisting of the novels ""Twilight"", ""New Moon"", ""Eclipse"", and ""Breaking Dawn"", is primarily narrated from Bella's point of view, but partway through ""Breaking Dawn"" it is written from the point of view of Jacob Black. In the film series, Bella is"
"later, the Narnian army breaking the siege at Anvard. In ""The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"" Susan accompanies Lucy to see Aslan die and rise again. She is named Queen Susan the Gentle. In ""Prince Caspian"", however, she is the last of the four to believe and follow Lucy when the latter is called by Aslan to guide them. As an adult queen in ""The Horse and His Boy"" she is courted by Prince Rabadash of Calormen but refuses his marriage proposal, and his angry response leads the story to its climax. In ""The Last Battle"", we are told"
"Lucy Barfield Lucy Barfield (2 November 1935 – 3 May 2003) was the godchild of C.S. Lewis. ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" is dedicated to Lucy, who also lent her name to the book's heroine, Lucy Pevensie. Lewis's letter and the dedication to ""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"" reads: My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result, you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be"
"tracing of Lucy's psychology. The novel, in a gothic setting, simultaneously explores themes of isolation, doubling, displacement and subversion, and each of their impacts upon the protagonist's psyche. ""Villette"" is sometimes celebrated as an exploration of gender roles and repression. In ""The Madwoman in the Attic"", critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar have argued that the character of Lucy Snowe is based in part on William Wordsworth's Lucy poems. Gilbert and Gubar emphasise the idea of feminine re-writing. Some critics have explored the issues of Lucy's psychological state in terms of what they call ""patriarchal constructs"" which form her cultural"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"it is fundamentally difficult for her to believe everyone is as happy as they seem. This has the effect of making Lucy seem pessimistic. From her perspective, however, she is simply realistic. This viewpoint originates from her past experiences. Throughout the book, we see that there is the subliminal mention of the Brontë sisters, Enid Blyton, Paul Gauguin, and Lucifer. Lucy mentions that instead of being named Lucy, she should have been named after one of the Brontë sisters (Emily, Anne, or Charlotte). These three sisters were also au-pairs. Since Lucy had gone to a British school, the British curriculum"
"the book, which featured extensive re-writing of the story and the inclusion of Betancourt as a self-aware character. Pony Pals Pony Pals is a 44-book series of pony books written by Jeanne Betancourt and published by Scholastic. It chronicles the adventures of three young girls and their ponies. The main characters of the series are Lucinda (Lulu) Sanders, Anna Harley, and Pam Crandal. The series starts when Lulu moves to the fictional town of Wiggins, and finds a neglected pony named Snow White, who she boards and later owns (after the fourth book). In the first book she becomes friends"
"an alien race who, it is suggested, caused the snow and move through it as their natural medium. The Snow (novel) The Snow, published in 2004, is a science fiction novel by the British writer Adam Roberts. It is set in the present day and, latterly, the near future. It concerns the appearance of a heavy, prolonged fall of snow, which eventually blankets the earth in a layer of snow literally miles thick. The heroine of the story, Tira, is a Londoner who initially survives the snowfall by staying on the surface of the snow. Once the snow begins to"
"adultery is a form of rebellion; and whether a child should be forced to bear the full price of a parent's infidelity. Kirkus Reviews found the novel bleak but praised Shaw for his storytelling talent. Lucy Crown Lucy Crown is a novel by American author Irwin Shaw. First published in 1956, it was Shaw's third novel, following The Young Lions and The Troubled Air. Lucy, an orphan, marries Oliver, a successful but frustrated businessman. Oliver's ambitions are thwarted when his father dies and Oliver is forced to run the family business. He proves to be a controlling husband. Lucy, who"
"Twilight (novel series) Twilight is a series of four vampire-themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. Released annually from 2005 through 2008, the four books chart the later teen years of Isabella ""Bella"" Swan, a girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series is told primarily from Bella's point of view, with the epilogue of ""Eclipse"" and Part II of ""Breaking Dawn"" being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black, a werewolf. The unpublished ""Midnight Sun"" is a retelling of the first book, ""Twilight"", from Edward"
"Twelves"" in the US), a child finds some magical toy soldiers which once belonged to the Brontës, and are alleged to have been the sources of some of their stories. The married surname of Brontë's paramour Lydia Robinson (née Gisborne) inspired the name of the character Mrs. Robinson, who likewise carries on an affair with an educated but idle young man, in the novella ""The Graduate"" (1963) and the 1967 film of the same name. Branwell and his sisters are the central figures in the play ""The Gales of March"" written by English professor Lee Bollinger in 1987. In June"
"To a Wreath of Snow ""To a Wreath of Snow"" is a poem, written by Emily Brontë in December 1837, the same month and year Anne Brontë fell seriously ill at Roe Head and had to be withdrawn by her sister Charlotte Brontë, who was there working as a teacher. ""To a Wreath of Snow"" is Emily writing as the character Augusta Almeda, the Queen of Gondal. Gondal was a fantasy world created by Emily and Anne three years previously. The context in which this poem was written suggests that Emily was attempting to escape the reality of her sister's"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"""Simon Snow"" is the name of the fictional series of novels that the protagonist in ""Fangirl"" (Cath) obsesses about. ""Carry On, Simon"" is the name of the novel-within-a-novel-based-on-a-book-series that Cath is writing in ""Fangirl"". However, Rowell has said that ""Carry On"" is a standalone novel and not meant to be seen as written by Cath. Simon Snow is returning to Watford, a magical school in England, for his eighth and final year. Over the course of the next few months, Simon comes to terms with his responsibility as the Chosen One, set to defeat the Insidious Humdrum, who has been"
"him to label her as a suspect. She marries Prince Charming to avenge herself and almost causes a war between his kingdom and the dwarves'. Her personality, however, masks the fact that she was terribly lonely. After many centuries, she was still angry at the loss of her marriage, and, consequently, she found herself resenting those in working relationships, particularly Beauty, with her successful multi-century marriage to Beast. As a former aristocrat, Snow had a tendency to associate love and happiness with handsome princes, fairy-tale castles and the trappings of high society. It took her a long time to realize"
"vary greatly in length, with the novelette ""The Bloody Chamber"" being ""more than twice the length of any of the other stories, and more than thirty times the length of the shortest [the vignette ""The Snow Child""]."" The anthology's contents are also reprinted in Carter's ""Burning Your Boats"". The stories within ""The Bloody Chamber"" are explicitly based on fairy tales. Carter was no doubt inspired by the works of author and fairytale collector Charles Perrault, whose fairy tales she had translated shortly beforehand. The narrator, a beautiful teenage girl, marries an older, wealthy French Marquis, whom she does not love."
"It features his most memorable character, the engagingly roguish Becky Sharp. The Brontë sisters were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published but were subsequently accepted as classics. They had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each the following year: Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"", Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne's ""Agnes Grey"". Later, Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) and Charlotte's ""Villette"" (1853)"