An edition of The Professor (1856)

The professor

a tale

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An edition of The Professor (1856)

The professor

a tale

Copyright ed.
  • 3.2 (5 ratings) ·
  • 36 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 10 Have read

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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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
B. Tauchnitz
Language
English
Pages
360

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1955, Dent
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1900, Thomas Nelson & Sons
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1865, Carleton
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1857, B. Tauchnitz
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The professor: a tale
1857, B. Tauchnitz
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Published in
Leipzig
Series
Collection of British authors ; 404

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR4167 .P7 1857bx

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 360 p. ;
Number of pages
360

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23662968M
Internet Archive
professortale00bron

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