THE PROFESSOR (PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS)
The novel is a trajectory of the protagonist William Crimsworth's life, an Englishman who becomes a teacher in Brussels. Bronte's hero escapes from a humiliating clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium, where he falls in love with an impoverished student-teacher, Bronte's most realistic feminist heroine. Told from Crimsworth's point of view, the only male narrator, this work formulated a new aesthetic that questioned the presuppositions of Victorian society.