She is Mademoiselle Reuter, manager of the adjoining female boarding school to which he is sent soon for his good work to give extra classes.
However, William soon finds a new “mistress” in Brussels to submit to, albeit in a different way. He decides to move to Belgium in search of a better future. William stoically endures all kinds of scorn until he finally cannot take it anymore. We witness a kind of liberation from the chains that repressed his full potential after his devastating experience in England working in an office run by his antagonistic and cruel brother, Edward Crimsworth, a businessman who takes no opportunity to humiliate and award the most tedious jobs to his incomprehensibly hated brother. Throughout the novel we are participants in William’s inner world and his particular way of feeling. Hunsden, a picturesque and influential character, who writes a letter of recommendation to help him get a teaching position at the male boarding school run by Monsieur Pelet. The protagonist is a young man recently graduated on the prestigious Eton College who flees his native England to seek dignity and independence in the capital of Belgium, Brussels. It is her posthumous novel, but the first one she wrote, completed in June 1846.Ĭharlotte Brontë incarnates the narrative voice of a man, William Crimsworth. The fact is that “The Professor” was not published until after her sad death due to tuberculosis in 1855. She continued writing to give birth to her next novels, which were published and achieved success: the notorious “Jane Eyre”, “Vilette” or “Shirley”. It was rejected many times by the publishers as it did not fit in the trends of the time, yet the author did not gave up. “The Professor” by Charlotte Brontë is the first novel by the eldest of the Brontë sisters. Por Verónica de la Cruz, redactora de contenidos en Britania for you
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