The Professor (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological romance
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: Belgium and England
- Principal Characters: William Crimsworth, Edward Crimsworth, Mr. Hunsden, M. Pelet, Mlle Zoraide Reuter, Mlle Frances Evans Henri
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Values, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Friendship, Schools or school life, Brothers, England or English people, Belgium or Belgian people
- Locales: England, Belgium
The Story:
Orphaned in infancy, William Crimsworth had been meagerly supported by his mother’s brothers, Lord Tynedale and the Honorable John Seacombe. William’s brother Edward, ten years his senior, had taken over his deceased father’s mill and had prospered.
Upon his graduation from Eton, William refused to accept further aid from the uncles who had treated his mother so coldly and asked his brother for employment. When he arrived at Bigben Close where the mill was located, Edward censured his young brother for having submitted to Tynedale and Seacombe for so...
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