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'You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.' Shirley is Charlotte Brontë'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 to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers; he ignores their suffering, and puts his own life at risk. Robert sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline. She suffers misery and frustration, and Shirley has her own ideas about the man she will choose to marry. The friendship between the two women, and the contrast between their situations, is at the heart of this compelling novel, which is suffused with Brontë's deep yearning for an earlier time.
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OF late years, an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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OF late years, an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Back Cover
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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One of the interesting things about Charlotte Bronte was the way she experimented with fiction. After the gothic (melo)drama of Jane Eyre she wrote her version of the 'industrial' novel more usually associated with her friend Elizabeth Gaskell.
Unlike the more romantic (or anti-romantic?) Jane Eyre and Villette, this is steeped in social realism: religion, class and economic politics. We have two heroines and two heroes and Shirley herself isn't always at the centre of the novel.
For Bronte or C19th literature fans this is a good read, but if you haven't read Charlotte Bronte before best not start here.
Unlike the more romantic (or anti-romantic?) Jane Eyre and Villette, this is steeped in social realism: religion, class and economic politics. We have two heroines and two heroes and Shirley herself isn't always at the centre of the novel.
For Bronte or C19th literature fans this is a good read, but if you haven't read Charlotte Bronte before best not start here.
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25 Mar 2012
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Read this book by chance one day and fell in love. So, I bought it. Good price for a hardback book, which I like to collect.
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