The professor /
Charlotte Brontė.
- [New ed.] / edited by Margaret Smith and Herbert Rosengarten /with an introduction by Margaret Smith.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- xxxv, 260 p. ; 20 cm.
- Oxford world's classics .
This ed. originally published: 1991.
Includes bibliographical references.
Written before Jane Eyre, 'The Professor' challenged contemporary expectations in its brevity, realism and insistence on a working career before and after marriage for its hero and heroine. It begins against a background of the fight for better factory conditions in the 1830s.