An edition of The Professor (1856)

The professor

by Charlotte Brontë

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An edition of The Professor (1856)

The professor

by Charlotte Brontë

3.2 (8 ratings)
54 Want to read
4 Currently reading
14 Have read

The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Bronte completed. Rejected by the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death. Like Villette (1853), The Professor is based on her experiences as a language student in Brussels in 1842.

Told from the point of view of William Crimsworth, the only male narrator that she used, the work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned many of the presuppositions of Victorian society. Bronte's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who is perhaps the author's most realistic feminist heroine.

The Professor endures today as both a harbinger of Bronte's later novels and a compelling read in its own right.

Publish Date

2008

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Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Pages

260

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01 The professor 2014, Hesperus Press in English 1843915308 9781843915300	cccc Borrow Listen Locate
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