![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth, and is a first-person narrative from his perspective. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. It was preceded by the posthumously published The Professor, her first, and then Jane Eyre and Shirley. Villette (1853) was Charlotte Brontë's fourth novel. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core. The focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity. ![]() It follows the emotions and experiences of its character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Jane Eyre (1847) is a novel published under the pen name "Currer Bell." Jane Eyre was Charlotte Brontë's second novel, but the first to be published. ![]()
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