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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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

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Subjects

British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Teachers, fiction, Belgium, fiction, Teachers, Fiction, Social life and customs

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2011, Kennebec Large Print
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2010, Arcturus Pub.
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2005, Barnes & Noble
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1987, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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The professor: Tales from Angria. Emma: a fragment, by Charlotte Brontë, together with a selection of poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë
1963
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1955, Dent
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1911, J. Grant
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1900, Thomas Nelson & Sons
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1865, Carleton
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Published in
Oxford [Oxfordshire], New York
Series
The Clarendon edition of the novels of the Brontës
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.8
Library of Congress
PR4167 .P7 1987, PR4167.P7 1987

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Pagination
xl, 349 p. :
Number of pages
349

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2736688M
ISBN 10
0198126948
LCCN
86031152
OCLC/WorldCat
14932224
Library Thing
19852
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763142

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