The professor / Charlotte Brontë ; edited by Margaret Smith and Herbert Rosengarten ; with an introduction by Margaret Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.

Contributor:

Smith, Margaret, 1931-

Rosengarten, Herbert.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

British--Belgium--Fiction.

British.

Belgium.

Women teachers--Fiction.

Women teachers.

Brussels (Belgium)--Fiction.

Brussels (Belgium).

Belgium--Brussels.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 292 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

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publisher who took on the work of her sisters in 1846 - Anne's Agnes Grey and Emily's Wuthering Heights - it remained unpublished until 1857, two years after Charlotte Bronte's death.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

Notes:

Originally published: 1991.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxiv).

ISBN:

0192835114

9780192835116

OCLC:

43528291