The Professor - Charlotte Bronte

Being a fan of the Bronte clan the first section I head to in my local library would be of that shelf. It was only a very short time ago that I discovered The Professor, not even realising Charlotte Bronte had written it. Indeed, ashamedly to admit, I had never even heard of it before then. It was created before Jane Eyre came about from the year 1845-6 and is an intimate and gentle story about William Crimsworth, a man working for his not quite so pleasant brother as a clerk but wanting so much more. On striking up an unexpected friendship with a Mr Hunsden he manages to break away to become a teacher in a Belgium school. Despite his attentions ...  Read the complete review

'The Professor' was the first novel completed by Charlotte Bronte yet remained unpublished until 1857, two years after her death. Commonly criticized as an immature trial-run for her later novel 'Villette' and deemed a failed attempt to write under the guise of a male narrator, 'The Professor' is however not without its charm. Like 'Villette', based upon the author's personal experiences as a language student in Brussels, the novel narrates the story of an orphan seeking a future in Brussels and thus acquiring a teaching post. However, unlike in 'Villette', the author enlists a male protagonist and it is in this choice that critics argue lies the major flaw of the ...  Read the complete review

‘The Professor’ by Charlotte Bronte This book was written before ‘Jane Eyre’, the most famous and loved book from all the books written by the Bronte sisters. I had never heard of this book till recently, and I immensely enjoyed reading it; when I finished the book it was four in morning! The reason I was prepared to read ‘The Professor’ is because I count ‘Jane Eyre’ as one of my all- time favourite novel. I have also read ‘Vilette,’ which is not dissimilar to ‘The Professor.’ The Story: William, an orphan and an Eton graduate, decides to leave his aristocratic maternal uncles and seek his own way up in the world. He approaches his ...  Read the complete review