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"Valletta /vi??l?t/ is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Valletta to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Valletta was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by The Professor (her posthumously published first novel, of which Valletta is a reworking), Jane Eyre, and Shirley."