I read The Professor first before I read Jane Eyre. Mr. Rochester reminded me of William's Crimsworth in The Professor.
I remember feeling broken-hearted that Mr. Rochester was already married. I love the playful bantering between Mr. Rochester and Jane. I read those parts repeatedly. The parts where they got separated for awhile was quite dull though (when Jane had to go back to care for her ill aunt and the part after Jane ran away from Mr. Rochester).
If I am not mistaken, Bronte wrote The Professor first before she wrote Jane Eyre. The Professor got rejected multiple times and was published post-humously. If you love Jane Eyre. I think you would like The Professor just as well. I actually prefer The Professor even more. Shirley is also another very good novel of Bronte... but somehow Jane Eyre became the most populour of her novels.
I recommend Anne Bronte's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Actually in some ways, Anne Bronte is even better than Charlotte Bronte.