Orphan William Crimsworth, raised by aristocratic uncles and educated for the clergy, rejects that life for work at his brother's Yorkshire mill. Treated badly there, William ...

The Professor - Charlotte Bronte - The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but ...

Like Villette, its successor, this novel abounds in autobiographical elements. A showcase of the author's developing style and talent, it tells of a love-starved English ...

After refusing his uncle's proposals to become clergyman, young William Crimsworth seeks work as a tradesman and becomes a clerk to his rich brother Edward. Edward, being ...

William Crimsworth escapes a dreary clerkship in industrial Yorkshire by taking a job as a teacher in Belgium. There, however, his entanglement with the sensuous but ...

A romantic Victorian novel. “It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.” - The Professor, Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte's The Professor is the ...