As a remarkable Victorian novelist, Charlotte Bronte wrote four impressive novels including Jane Eyre and The Professor. Jane Eyre proves to be a typical Victorian book, fascinating and enduring, whereas The Professor, the first complete novel that Charlotte Bronte wrote has always been considered as minor and illconceived. Despite the totally different judgments of the two novels, there exists many similarities between Jane Eyre and The Professor. This paper aims at helping readers have a better understanding of The Professor by comparing with Jane Eyre from two aspects: genre and theme, and try to find out the similarities of Jane Eyre and The Professor, thus we can have a further understanding of Charlotte Bronte.