Shirley Illustrated

By: Bront?, Charlotte

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bront vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08HQ8MHGV
• ISBN13: 9798684107320
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 790 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"