(P/B) THE PROFESSOR

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The Professor, written in 1845-6 before Jane Eyre, challenged contemporary expectations of the novel by its brevity, realism, and insistence on a working career both before and after marriage for its hero and heroine. William Crimsworth escapes from an uncongenial clerkship in a Yorkshire mill to find work as a teacher in Belgium. He becomes entangled with a sensuously attractive 'older woman', whose later, suavely cruel manoeuvres are designed to separate him from the penniless girl who is both a teacher and a pupil in her school. Strikingly up to date for its era, the action begins amid the fight for better factory conditions in the 18305, and ends in the early 18405 with that spread of liberal ideas which would lead to the continental revolutions of 1848. (from the publisher)

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Abbreviations used in this edition
Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology
THE PROFESSOR
Appendix: Introduction to 'Emma'
'Emma'
Explanatory Notes