Our narrator introduces herself a few pages into the novel, although we know she is speaking to us right away. Lucy Snowe is an Englishwoman who takes a position at a boarding school in an attempt to escape her loneliness. I’m not convinced that she succeeded in that attempt, however, the most captivating part of Charlotte Brontë’s last work for me was not the actual story. Rather, Lucy Snowe’s speeches, inner feelings and thoughts, and general descriptions of what she sees or witnesses were enough to keep me moving through the pages with ease.