![]() Here he becomes involved with two very different women: one is Zoraide Reuter, the headmistress of the neighbouring girls’ school, and the other is a poor friendless student-teacher, Frances Henri. Finding himself out of work again, William takes the advice of another businessman, Mr Hunsden, and goes to Belgium to teach English at a boys’ school in Brussels. ![]() However, William finds Edward impossible to get along with – he’s cruel and cold-hearted and treats William badly. The narrator’s name is William Crimsworth, and at the beginning of the novel he is starting a new job as a clerk, working for his brother Edward, a rich mill-owner. This is interesting as it shows us Charlotte’s views on how a man would think and behave and what his feelings towards women might be. Like Jane Eyre and Villette, this book is written in the first person, but with one difference – the narrator is a man. ![]() She was unable to find a publisher for it during her lifetime and it was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The Professor was Charlotte Brontë’s first novel. ![]()
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