The Professor

by Brontë, Charlotte; Smith, Margaret; Rosengarten, Herbert; Smith, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9780192827418
• ISBN10: 0192827413
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-11-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Professor (1857) was Charlotte Bront's first and least regarded novel, rejected by all publishers during her lifetime and published posthumously by her widower A. B. Nicholls. Charlotte herself defended the novel passionately. "I said to myself that my hero should work his way through life as I had seen real living men work theirs -- that he should never get a shilling he had not earned." Indeed, William Crimsworth, the hero, is the self-made master of all his life's ambiguous fortune, including his career as a professor in Brussels, and his true love. Whatever the comparisons to Charlotte Bront's other, more popular novels, The Professor deserves a closer examination and a new reader perspective.

Table of Contents

Oxford World's Classics	p. ii
Abbreviations Used in This Edition	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Note on the Text	p. xxviii
Select Bibliography	p. xxxii
A Chronology of Charlotte Brontë	p. xxxv
Preface	p. 1
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Appendix	p. 249
Appendix	p. 249
Explanatory Notes	p. 270
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