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Unique Elements Author Biography About The Professor "In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life--November seasons of disaster, when a man's hearth and home would be cold indeed, without the clear, cheering gleam of intellect."... Read Full Overview

The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both... Read Full Overview

The hero of Charlotte Bront 's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zora de Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both... Read Full Overview

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue.

The Professor is Charlotte Bront s first novel, in which she audaciously inhabits the voice and consciousness of a man, William Crimsworth. Like Jane Eyre he is parentless; like Lucy Snowe in Villette... Read Full Overview

The hero of Charlotte Bronte's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zoraide Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both... Read Full Overview

The Professor (1857) is English writer Charlotte Bront 's first novel. Rejected by several publishing houses, Bront shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). After her death, The Professor was edited by Bront 's widower, Arthur... Read Full Overview

The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Bront . It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857 by approval of Arthur Bell Nicholls, who accepted the task of reviewing and editing of... Read Full Overview

Annotated Edition Including Biography Entire Novel, uncut version Character Analysis After her death notes Charlotte Bront? in Society The Professor, A Tale. was the first novel by Charlotte Bront?. It was written before Jane Eyre, but was rejected by many publishing houses... Read Full Overview

"The Professor", by Charlotte Bronte, was the author's first novel but it was not published until after her death (and perhaps she refashioned it to some degree later in her novel "Villette"). It is the tale of William Crimsworth, a man without parents and forsaken by his brother,... Read Full Overview

This edition contains the original and unabridged text of The Professor.

The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Bront . It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published... Read Full Overview

The hero of Charlotte Bront 's first novel escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but manipulative Zora de Reuter, complicates his affections for a penniless girl who is both... Read Full Overview

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'The Professor' is Charlotte Bront 's first novel, reflecting her own experience of life in Brussels and published after her untimely death. Viewed as a precursor to the narrative style and characterisation... Read Full Overview

A quietly compelling story of self-discipline, integrity, and earned affection, The Professor is the first novel Charlotte Bront completed.

Centred on William Crimsworth, a young Englishman determined to secure independence through honest labour, the... Read Full Overview

William Crimsworth is a young Englishman just out of school and ready to begin a career. With his sense of self-pride and strong moral views, however, he finds the options available to him are far from pleasant. Unwilling to follow the dictates of the moneyed members of his... Read Full Overview