By Charlotte Brontë
The Professor used to be the 1st novel that Charlotte Brontë accomplished. Rejected by way of the writer who took at the paintings of her sisters in 1846--Anne's Agnes gray and Emily's Wuthering Heights--it remained unpublished until eventually 1857, years after Charlotte Brontë's demise.
Like Villette (1853), The Professor relies on her reports as a language scholar in Brussels in 1842. instructed from the viewpoint of William Crimsworth, the single male narrator that she used, the paintings formulated a brand new aesthetic that puzzled a few of the presuppositions of Victorian society.
Brontë's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to discover paintings as a instructor in Belgium, the place he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, who's might be the author's so much lifelike feminist heroine. The Professor endures at the present time as either a harbinger of Brontë's later novels and a compelling learn in its personal right.
"The heart and latter component of The Professor is nearly as good as i will be able to write," proclaimed Brontë. "It includes extra pith, extra substance, extra truth, in my judgment, than a lot of Jane Eyre".
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261 Wartime Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . 1273 writing to reflect Fiction as Social Teaching . . . . . . . . . . 1009 Writing in the Wake of Colonialism . . . . . . . . 1351 writing to compare The Epic in Translation . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Literature and the Common Life . . . . . . . . . 135 Universal Themes in Love Poetry . . . . . . . . 331 Differing Roles for Women . . . . . . . . . . 717 Victorian Romantic Poetry . .
830 WriteSmart The Growth and Development of Fiction . . . . . . 948 Modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090 Literature as Social Criticism . . . . . . . . . com speaking, listening, and viewing Oral Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Power Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537 Persuasive Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 vocabulary strategies pages 68, 90, 164, 178, 194, 211, 260, 442, 452, 504, 621, 644, 656, 666, 677, 716, 972, 988, 1008, 1022, 1126, 1146, 1184, 1214, 1237, 1254, 1272, 1306, 1330 Conducting an Interview .
948 Modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1090 Literature as Social Criticism . . . . . . . . . com speaking, listening, and viewing Oral Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 Power Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 537 Persuasive Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . 725 vocabulary strategies pages 68, 90, 164, 178, 194, 211, 260, 442, 452, 504, 621, 644, 656, 666, 677, 716, 972, 988, 1008, 1022, 1126, 1146, 1184, 1214, 1237, 1254, 1272, 1306, 1330 Conducting an Interview .