The ProfessorCharlotte Bronte

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The Professor-Charlotte Brontë

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.

William’s first person narration reveals his attraction to the

dominating directress of the girls’ school where he teaches,

played out in the school’s ‘secret garden’. Balanced

against this is his more temperate relationship with

one of his pupils, Frances Henri, in which mastery and

submission interplay. The Professor was published only

after Charlotte Brontës death; today it gives us a

fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme

creative imagination.

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