The Professor

Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) was an English novelist and poet whose novels became major classics in Victorian literature. She was the eldest of the Bronte sisters (Anne Bronte, Emily Bronte, and Charlotte Bronte) after the death of her two elder siblings, which left her with responsibilities. She started writing poems at the age of thirteenth and published them in homemade magazines. She first started writing under her pen name Currer Bell, along with her sisters, who also wrote under pseudonyms until 1848, after which they were celebrated in the London literary circle and achieved success. Her most famous novels—The Professor, Villette, and Jane Eyre—were published posthumously, after 1855. The novel, The Professor, parallels much of her own experiences in Brussels as a pupil and a teacher at Constantin Heger’s school for girls. Another novel by Bronte, Jane Eyre, is a Victorian fiction classic that remarkably questioned the natural desires and morality and challenges the gender roles of society, diving into the genre of gothic fiction. The portrayal of the setting in the novel is inspired by her own experiences in school.
She died in Haworth, England, in 1855 aged 38.