The Professor
Brontèˆ, Charlotte, 1816-18552010
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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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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.
Main title:
The Professor / by Charlotte Bronte.
Author:
Imprint:
Miami, Fla. : Hardpress, 2010.
Collation:
ii, 201 p. 23 cm.
ISBN:
14076070739781407607078 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.8
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
247112
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH RYDE | ADULT FICTION | F BRONClassics | Onloan - Due: 24 Apr 2026 |