An edition of The Professor (1856)

The professor

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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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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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349

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The professor
2014, Hesperus Press
in English
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The professor
2011, Kennebec Large Print
in English - Large print ed.
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The professor
2011, CreateSpace
in English
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The Professor
2010, Arcturus Pub.
in English
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The professor
2005, Barnes & Noble
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
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The professor. A novel
1865, Carleton
in English
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The professor
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Published in
London
Series
The Clarendon edition of the novels of the Brontës

The Physical Object

Pagination
xl, 349 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Number of pages
349

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21465521M
ISBN 10
0198126948
Goodreads
763142

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July 14, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot associate orphaned edition with work based on ISBN 9780198126942
April 16, 2010 Edited by bgimpertBot Added goodreads ID.
November 2, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from The Laurentian Library MARC record