(from the article `Brontë, Charlotte`) In Villette she recurred to the Brussels setting and the first-person narrative, disused in Shirley; the characters and incidents are largely ... ...tradition of the Gothic novel. In Shirley (1849) Charlotte Brontë strove to be, in her own words, `as unromantic as Monday morning.... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/v/25