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Article: Charlotte Bronte's 'Villette': forgeries of sex and self.
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- Studies in the Novel
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- September 22, 1994
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FORGE: vb [ME, fr. OF, fr. L fabrica, fr. fabr-, faber] to form or bring into being esp. by an expenditure of effort; to make or imitate falsely esp. with intent to defraud: COUNTERFEIT
She cannot think in a beard
Sydney Dobell on "Currer Bell"(1)
In an early review of Villette (1853), Charlotte Bronte's fourth and final completed novel before her death at the age of thirty-eight, one mid-century critic announces: "In the next edition of Villette we should like very much to see the last page altered, and to find all the apostrophes expunged ... the omission of such passages ... would be extremely easy, and would save readers the pains of skipping ...
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