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The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontė. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girl's school. The story is based upon Charlotte Brontė's experiences in Brussels, where she studied as a language student in 1842.
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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the publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Brontė's death.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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"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."
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.
Written in 1845-46 prior to her work on Jane Eyre, but published posthumously in 1857, this novel draws from Charlotte Bronte's personal experiences growing up in Yorkshire and working abroad as a governess in Brussels.
In her introduction to The Professor, Bronte states, "I said to myself that my hero should work his way through life as I had seen real living men work theirs -- that he should never get a shilling he had not earned -- that no sudden turns should lift him in a moment to wealth and high station -- that whatever small competency he might gain should be won by the sweat of his brow...".
Written in a style both brief and realistic -- and not in demand by publishers of her time -- Bronte relates the experiences of a young man as he changes his life from dreary ancillary work in the local mills to the position of a professor in Belgium. Not only does she depict with honesty the vagaries of a young man abroad, running into women and fellow teachers with different values in love and work than his own; she also illustrates concerns of her own times -- factory conditions in need of improvement for the sake of workers, and the seeds of liberal ideas sown contemporaneously with her novel's writing that, just a few years later, would foment revolutions across the European continent.
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- PublisherAMS Press
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0404088341
- ISBN 13 9780404088347
- BindingUnknown Binding
- Number of pages546
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