With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue.
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.
BRONTE CHARLOTTE
Novelista inglesa, de las tres hermanas Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855 fue la mayor y más longeva, así como la que dispuso de más tiempo para entregarse a la literatura. Novela llevada al cine en varias ocasiones -aunque es especialmente memorable su versión de 1944, protagonizada por Orson Welles y Joan Fontaine-, "Jane Eyre" fue desde su aparición un éxito rotundo. Otras obras escritas por Charlotte son "Shirley", "Villette", "El profesor".
