Shirley, published in 1849, was Charlotte Brontë’s second novel after Jane Eyre. Published under her pseudonym of “Currer Bell,” it differs in several respects from that ...

Originally published in 1849, Shirley is the only of Charlotte Brontë’s novels to be set in a historical period before the novel was written. It takes place in Yorkshire during ...

Robert Moore, a manufacturer in Yorkshire whose business is struggling, has introduced new labor-saving machinery to his cotton mill, resulting in many workers losing their ...

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte - Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines ...

Reproduction of the original: Shirley by Charlotte Bronte