The Professor
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Teachers, fictionBelgium, fictionTeachersFiction
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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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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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British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Teachers, fictionBelgium, fictionTeachersFictionSocial life and customs
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Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Brontë Her sisters, Anne and Emily, first published their works as Acton and Ellis Bell.
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