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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

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

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

"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

Unabridged, 8.5" x 11" edition (21.59 x 27.94 cm) with small type (9-point) and three column format on cream paper . With her first novel, Jane Eyre , Charlotte Bront had revolutionised the art of fiction with an intensity that was by the time only known from poetry. Shirley... 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 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

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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

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... Read Full Overview

Following the tremendous success of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte returned to pen a novel every bit as romantic and compelling as her first-but with deeper, heartier themes as she captured the social and political currents of the newly industrialized United Kingdom of... 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