{"product_id":"the-professor-charlotte-bronte-wordsworth-classic-book","title":"The Professor | Charlotte Brontë | Wordsworth Classic | Book","description":"The Professor | Charlotte Brontë | Wordsworth Classic | Book\n\nThe Professor is Charlotte Bronte's 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 Bronte's 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 Bronte's death; today it gives us a fascinating insight into the first stirrings of her supreme creative imagination.","brand":"Marble City Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54950416974037,"sku":"9781853262081","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0777\/7170\/2485\/files\/70892411d1d2757009790a849f1755293cb0a831fe784e4c34cfa239178fae42.jpg?v=1789496336","url":"https:\/\/www.acornbookshop.com\/products\/the-professor-charlotte-bronte-wordsworth-classic-book","provider":"Acorn Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}