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Shirley

by Charlotte Brontë

History · Novel

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Shirley was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). Shirley is set in Yorkshire, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War.

About the author

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a first-person account of work, conscience, and desire that refuses to treat the heroine as scenery. It remains one of the clearest voices in the nineteenth-century novel. More of this shelf for Charlotte Brontë.

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