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For readers who love Victorian novels about work, money and conscience, and anyone curious about the first steps of Charlotte Brontë's writing. William's search for self-respect brings together ambition, love and the judgment of character.
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The Professor is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, and it tells the story of William Crimsworth, a young Englishman who must make his own way in the world. He has no money, no patron and a hard older brother. He leaves a Yorkshire mill town for Brussels, where he becomes a teacher in two neighbouring schools. Brontë wrote it first, before Jane Eyre, in the years after she studied in Brussels herself. Publishers turned it down, and it appeared only in 1857, two years after her death.
This is a quieter book than the ones she is best known for. William tells his own story in a plain, watchful voice, and he cares more about work and self-respect than about romance. You will meet a cruel mill owner, a clever and sly schoolmistress, and a poor lace mender who is hungry to learn. You will also see how a young man learns to judge people by their character and not by their looks or their charm. Let us start with William's choice to refuse help from his rich relatives, and what that choice costs him.
En este resumen
- 1A proud orphan refuses rich patronsFree
- 2Edward's mill is a place of humiliation
- 3Hunsden points the way to Brussels
- 4Teaching in Brussels shapes a new man
- 5Mademoiselle Reuter charms, then disappoints
- 6Frances Henri and the cost of worth
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A proud orphan refuses rich patrons
The book opens with a letter in which William Crimsworth describes his past to an old school friend. His mother came from a wealthy and well-bred family, the Seacombes. She married a poor mill owner, and her relatives never forgave her. After both parents die, the boy is looked after by his mother's relatives.
Two of his mother's brothers, one of them a lord, pay for his schooling at Eton. They do not love him, and they treat him as a burden they carry out of duty. When he finishes school, they ask what he will do. They hint that if he marries one of their daughters or takes a place in the church, they will help him.
William rejects both offers. He has no wish to marry a woman he does not love, and he has no call to be a clergyman. He would rather earn a plain living than owe his life to people who look down on him. That pride is the first mark of his character, and it drives the whole book.
So he writes to his brother Edward, who owns a mill in the north of England, and asks for work. Edward is a hard, practical man who has done well in trade. He agrees, but not out of kindness. William is about to find out what it means to depend on a man who enjoys power.
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