Shirley
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About This Book
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre . The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.
615
Chapters
~7380 min
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English
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3.8 ★
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Chapters (615)
- SHIRLEY BY CHARLOTTE BRONTË T. Nelson & Sons
- CONTENTS.
- SHIRLEY.
- CHAPTER I. LEVITICAL.
- CHAPTER II. THE WAGONS.
- CHAPTER III. MR. YORKE.
- CHAPTER IV. MR. YORKE (continued).
- CHAPTER V. HOLLOW'S COTTAGE.
- CHAPTER VI. CORIOLANUS.
- CHAPTER VII. THE CURATES AT TEA.
- CHAPTER VIII. NOAH AND MOSES.
- CHAPTER IX. BRIARMAINS.
- CHAPTER X. OLD MAIDS.
- CHAPTER XI. FIELDHEAD.
- CHAPTER XII. SHIRLEY AND CAROLINE.
- CHAPTER XIII. FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS ON BUSINESS.
- CHAPTER XIV. SHIRLEY SEEKS TO BE SAVED BY WORKS.
- CHAPTER XV. MR. DONNE'S EXODUS.
- CHAPTER XVI. WHITSUNTIDE.
- CHAPTER XVII. THE SCHOOL FEAST.
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"Shirley" was written by Charlotte Brontë. It is classified as Romance, Historical Fiction, Essays, Fiction, Classic Literature, British Literature, Victorian Literature, 19th Century Literature.
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