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A passionate but unsentimental depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations

With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue The 'Shirley' of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts - Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth-manufacturing... Read Full Overview

Unabridged, 8.5" x 11" edition (21.59 x 27.94 cm) with small type (9-point) and three column format on cream paper . Shirley is the second novel of Charlotte Bront. It was published in 1849, after Charlotte had endured the death of her siblings. Shirley is a work of artistic... Read Full Overview

Shirley is Charlotte Bront: e e's only historical novel and her most topical one. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined... Read Full Overview

Shirley is an 1849 social novel with an embedded Victorian romantic drama by the English novelist Charlotte Bront . It was Bront 's second published novel after Jane Eyre. The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the... Read Full Overview

Is money more important than love? Robert needs money to restore his family name and fortune, but he loves Caroline. When Shirley comes to town as a single wealthy woman, he believes his money troubles are over. Things become a little more complicated when Caroline and Shirley... Read Full Overview

"Shirley" is an 1849 novel by Charlotte Bront?. Her second novel, it was set in post-Napoleonic Wars Yorkshire and follows the centers around the uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. It tackles ideas of gender equality and is responsible for the name Shirley (the female... Read Full Overview

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Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Bront . It was Bront 's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Bront 's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, during the industrial depression... Read Full Overview

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Robert Moore is a harsh mill-owner who pushes his workers so far that one of them tries to kill him. While dealing with the attempt on his life, Robert is also confronted with two very different women. One is Caroline Helstone, a shy girl virtually imprisoned in her uncle's rectory... Read Full Overview

"Revolutionary...Bront 's most feminist novel."-Lyndall Gordon

"Charlotte Bront has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us sense what she sees, never leaves us for a moment or allows us to forget her."-Virginia Woolf

Shirley, the second... Read Full Overview