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Written before Jane Eyre, 'The Professor' challenged contemporary expectations in its brevity, realism and insistence on a working career before and after marriage for its hero and heroine. It begins against a background of the fight for better factory conditions in the 1830s.
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The Professor was the first novel that Charlotte Brontė 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the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontė's death.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. Brontė'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 Brontė's later novels and a compelling read in its own right.
"The middle and latter portion of The Professor is as good as I can write," proclaimed Brontė. "It contains more pith, more substance, more reality, in my judgment, than much of Jane Eyre."
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One of the most important female writers of the nineteenth century, Charlotte Bronte is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, which was originally published under the pseudonym Currer Bell.
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- PublisherHARPER COLLINS
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0007920687
- ISBN 13 9780007920686
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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Condition: Fine. HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The Professor' is Charlotte Bront?'s first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death. Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterisation she perfected in her later works, such as 'Jane Eyre', the novel is Bront?'s portrayal of a love story from a male perspective. Writing from the point of view of orphaned young teacher, William Crimsworth - the sole male protagonist among Bront?'s works - the author allows herself a freedom of action in love and will that reveals her character's loves, desires and ambitions as he forges a new life on his own terms in Brussels. William finds himself caught between the desire he feels for Zoraide Reuter, the beguiling head of the girls' school where he teaches, and the gentle love he feels for one of his pupils, Frances Henri. Exploring questions of love, identity, freedom and independence, 'The Professor' is an important work in the small opus that is Charlotte Bront?'s significant contribution to English literature. Seller Inventory # e5db5b22-11cb-4a3b-bf11-5cb2c2a8e329
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