The Professor, meanwhile, continued to languish, and was published posthumously, remaining one of Brontë’s more obscure works. The publisher must have sensed a winner the book was hastily brought out just six weeks after acceptance, and became an immediate bestseller. That new manuscript was none other than Jane Eyre. Instead of sitting idly, pining for news, she worked on her next novel.Īt last, finally getting some encouragement from Messers Smith and Elder that her next submission might get some honest attention, her next manuscript was at the ready to submit and she dispatched it, post haste.
Yet Charlotte did what any savvy would-be author would. With nowhere near the houses as there are today, each disappointment was significant.Īdding to the pain was that her sisters’ novels found a home, while hers didn’t. were perseveringly obtruded upon various publishers for the space of a year and a half usually, their fate was an ignominious and abrupt dismissal …”Ĭharlotte Brontë’s manuscript for The Professor made its rounds and was rejected (or ignored) by half a dozen London publishers. “We each set to work on a prose tale: Ellis Bell produced Wuthering Heights, Acton Bell, Agnes Grey, and Currer Bell also wrote a narrative in one volume. They continued to use the assumed quasi-masculine names that appeared on their book of poetry, styling themselves Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily), and Acton (Anne), all surnamed Bell.Īt first, and for some time, they had no luck. The resounding failure of a book of poems she produced with sisters Emily and Anne in 1846 didn’t stop Charlotte from spearheading an effort to find a publisher for the novels that they had been working on. It wasn’t published until 1857, two years after her death, with her literary reputation secured. Though Jane Eyre was Charlotte Brontë‘s first published novel, The Professor was actually the first novel she completed.
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