<p>Unpublished at the time of her death <i>The Professo</i>r is the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë and the seed of her later books <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Villette</i>. The narrator of the tale William Crimsworth tells a story of courage and ambition among jealousy and envy: Orphaned from a young age William rejects life in the clergy and then as a tradesman to the chagrin of his cruel uncles and elder brother. Instead he pursues a career in education and ends up in Brussels where he meets student/teacher Francis Evans Henri a half-English Swiss orphan with whom he falls in love. However their union is prevented by the jealousy of headmistress Mademoiselle Reuter who has accidentally fallen in love with William herself...</p>