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In libraries in the United States a few copies of Charlotte Brontë’s Villette can be found that once belonged to equally renowned authors. T...

While doing more research for the China article, the last of the translations series published recently, I found several more previously un...

The first Chinese Villette was published in 1932, in Shanghai, in a translation by Wu Guangjian (1867-1943). In 1930 his Wuthering Heights ...

When at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels, Charlotte and Emily Brontë wrote quite a lot of essays, or devoirs, at the instruction of Monsieur...

The first Korean Villette was published in 1996, in a translation by Joel Lee. It was published by Ch'angjak kwa Pip'yŏngsa from S...

Villette The first Villette translated in Persian (or Farsi; as far as I could gather) was published in 1992 by Insight (474 pp.). The tra...

Turkey is unique in having, albeit abridged, both Villette and The Professor in one book, published in 1958 (410 pp.).  There were actually...

Anne Brontë was born on 17 January 1820. To commemorate her birthday Eric has collected a few covers of her books. 
 Czechia, 1975 ...

In the last few months more translated editions of Villette and The Professor have been published. And recently two more Villettes were a...

The amount of languages in which Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre have been translated has continued to expand. In the last updated version...

It took until 1971 before a new  Le Professeur  was published, a new translation by Janine Rebersat et Jacques Papy. It was described earlie...

All the Brontë novels It’s an exciting race for the top scorer competition of the amount of languages. Wuthering Heights has taken the le...

The first translation of Villette in French after (the abridged) La Maitresse d'Anglais was published in 1932 by Gallimard from Paris....

Having found nearly all translations we can get a good picture of how Villette and The Professor in time spread around the world. About ha...

The first German translation of The Professor was published in 1858 in Stuttgart, translated "Aus dem Englischen von Dr. Büchele"...

After the two translations of Villette published in Berlin and Stuttgart in 1853, described earlier, it took until 1971 before a new transl...

Villette The story of Villette in Switzerland begins in April 1856, with an ad for La Maitresse d'Anglais , the Belgian-French (abrid...

There were three editions of the translation in 2007. Two of them were published by AST Chranitelj from Moscow. The first of these had 525 ...

The first translation of Villette was published in 1853. In 1856 and 1860 a translation of La Maitresse d’Anglais was published. These hav...

In this article the translations of Villette and The Professor that were published in the countries of the former Yugoslavia will be descr...