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Shirley, A Tale is a social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of ...
- Charlotte Brontë
- 1849
"Shirley is a revolutionary novel," wrote Brontë biographer Lyndall Gordon. "Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and ...
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Jul 8, 2019 · Learn about the plot and setting of Shirley, Charlotte Brontë's second novel, published in 1849 under the pseudonym Currer Bell. The novel depicts the social and economic challenges of the Luddite uprisings in Yorkshire and the characters of Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone.
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- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
- Shirley
- English
Shirley is a historical novel by Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). Written in 1849, it is Brontë’s second novel and followed the overwhelming success of Jane Eyre (1847). It was also very popular when it was published.
Sep 26, 2006 · As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled? Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley (1849) is an unsentimental, yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations.
Product Details. Ebook | $3.99. Published by Modern Library. Jan 05, 1999 | 624 Pages | ISBN 9780679640097. Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë vowed to write...
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