A new talk at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, part of their Brontë Festival:
Talk by Tim Tubbs
The McCarthy
Tuesday 19 April 2022, 1.45pm
A look into Charlotte Brontë's inspiration for her first novel, The Professor, and its mature development, Villette.
Like Jane Eyre and so many other characters in their novels, the Brontës' only career option was school-teaching or ‘governessing’, their experiences of which crucially informed their writing. The critic QD Leavis described Charlotte’s frustrated romance with the married principal of the Pensionnat Héger in Brussels, where she taught, as an 'educational earthquake' that inspired her first novel The Professor and its mature development Villette, as well as the obvious themes of teaching and schools in Jane Eyre.
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