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

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

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...

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...

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

Romania Villette Romania’s first translation of Villette , by George Demetru-Pan, was published in 1940 by Capitol from Bukarest (276 pp....

Denmark After the 1853-4 Danish Villette there has only been one more translation of Villette . It was published in 1976 by Hernov, in coo...

Villette Ilona Róna (1904-199?) translated many books, for instance of Jane Austen, Wiliam Makepeace Thackeray and Gore Vidal, and also fr...

  Czechia Villette The first Czech Villette was published in two volumes in 1907-8 by Jan Laichter from Prague (369 and 393 pp....

Throughout Charlotte Bronte’s life and works, France and the French language and culture occupied a prominent place in her mental landscape....

In March 2014 I visited Brussels to carry out some preliminary research for a project on Charlotte Brontë and Brussels. The work came out of...