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ISBN-10: 0141439866
ISBN-13: 9780141439860
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 09/26/2006
Dimensions: 8.36" L, 4.45" W, 1.23" H

Shirley

Editor: Jessica Cox
Introduction by: Lucasta Miller

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Overview

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 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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Details

ISBN-10: 0141439866
ISBN-13: 9780141439860
Publisher: Penguin Group
Publish Date: 09/26/2006
Dimensions: 8.36" L, 4.45" W, 1.23" H
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