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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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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Publisher
Penguin
Language
English
Pages
316

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2014, Hesperus Press
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The professor
2011, Kennebec Large Print
in English - Large print ed.
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2011, CreateSpace
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2010, Arcturus Pub.
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2005, Barnes & Noble
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The professor
1989, Penguin
in English
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The Professor
1955, Dent
in English
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The professor
1911, J. Grant
in English
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The professor
1900, Thomas Nelson & Sons
in English
Cover of: The professor. A novel
The professor. A novel
1865, Carleton
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Harmondsworth
Series
Penguin classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4167 .J3 2002eb, PR4167

The Physical Object

Pagination
316 p. ;
Number of pages
316

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18348663M
Internet Archive
janeeyre0000bron_b6w3
ISBN 10
0140433112
LCCN
88064781
OCLC/WorldCat
18834521, 70730595
Library Thing
19852
Goodreads
773147

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