Shirley
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Following the tremendous popular success of ‘Jane Eyre’, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Brontë 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 co….Read More
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