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Charlotte Brontë: The Professor (Hardcover, 1999, North Books) 4 stars

This little book was written before either "Jane Eyre" or "Shirley," and yet no indulgence …

Review of 'The Professor' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I love the raw energy and hidden innocence of this novel. The prose is more elegant than I expected. The characters are somewhat more crisply drawn than Brontë's later novels. In its innocence, there is quite a lot of innocent humor like the question of a window overlooking a school of girls. Pure innocence for sure. And I get it... Brontë became much better, but in truth, here she was already quite good.