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Charlotte Brontë

The Professor

The Professor is Charlotte Brontës 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 he leaves the certainties of England to forge a life in Brussels. But as a man, William has freedom of action, and as a writer Brontë is correspondingly liberated, exploring the relationship between power and sexual desire.
314 printed pages
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Impressions

  • Leenashared an impression4 years ago

    Not as brilliantly written as other Bronte novels but still enjoyable

  • b1571132605shared an impression3 years ago
    👍Worth reading

Quotes

  • Karie Readshas quoted3 years ago
    This little book was written before either “Jane Eyre” or “Shirley,” and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been previously worn a good deal in a practice of some years. I had not indeed published anything before I commenced “The Professor,” but in many a crude effort, destroyed almost as soon as composed, I had got over any such taste as I might once have had for ornamented and redundant compositio
  • b1571132605has quoted3 years ago
    “Eulalie, je suis prete a pamer de rire,” observed one.
    “Comme il a rougi en parlant!”
    “Oui, c’est un veritable blanc-bec.”

    “Eulalie, je suis prete a pamer de rire,” observed one.
    “Comme il a rougi en parlant!”
    “Oui, c’est un veritable blanc-bec.”

  • atalanthas quoted7 years ago
    and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt

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