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Charlotte Brontë: Shirley (2010, Kennebec Large Print)

799 pages

English language

Published Nov. 14, 2010 by Kennebec Large Print.

ISBN:
978-1-4104-3239-1
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OCLC Number:
650827433

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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.

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Subjects

  • Textile industry
  • Fiction
  • Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
  • Women

Places

  • Yorkshire (England)
  • England