An edition of The Professor (1856)

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An edition of The Professor (1856)

The professor

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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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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.

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CreateSpace
Language
English
Pages
176

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Cover of: The professor
The professor
2014, Hesperus Press
in English
Cover of: The professor
The professor
2011, CreateSpace
in English
Cover of: The professor
The professor
2011, Kennebec Large Print
in English - Large print ed.
Cover of: The Professor
The Professor
2010, Arcturus Pub.
in English
Cover of: The professor
The professor
2005, Barnes & Noble
in English
Cover of: The professor
Cover of: The Professor
The Professor
1955, Dent
in English
Cover of: The professor
The professor
1911, J. Grant
in English
Cover of: The professor
The professor
1900, Thomas Nelson & Sons
in English
Cover of: The professor. A novel

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[Charleston, S.C

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176 p. ;
Number of pages
176

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25566895M
Internet Archive
professor00bron_192
ISBN 10
1461036127
ISBN 13
9781461036128
OCLC/WorldCat
730946735

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May 29, 2022 Edited by AgentSapphire Merge works
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