Shirley (Wordsworth Classics)

Name: Shirley (Wordsworth Classics)
SKU: 9781853260643
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Book Summary

Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontأ« 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.

Language: English
Paperback: 496 pages
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (1998)
ISBN-10: 1853260649
ISBN-13: 9781853260643
Genre: Classics
Size: 13 cm x 20.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 75 grams
Condition: New