With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue. The Professor
is Charlotte Brontes 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 Bronte 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 Brontes death;
today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of
her supreme creative imagination.
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