Charlotte Bronte was a natural story-teller with a gift for creating memorable characters and for evoking atmosphere. The novel is set among the cloth mills of the author's native Yorkshire and she succeeds brilliantly in creating the full drama of the latter part of the Napoleonic Wars when labour-saving machinery was smashed by desperate, unemployed workers.
Rich in historical detail, Shirley is a human as well
Charlotte Bronte was a natural story-teller with a gift for creating memorable characters and for evoking atmosphere. The novel is set among the cloth mills of the author's native Yorkshire and she succeeds brilliantly in creating the full drama of the latter part of the Napoleonic Wars when labour-saving machinery was smashed by desperate, unemployed workers.
Rich in historical detail, Shirley is a human as well as a social novel with a perpetual relevance in its exploration of humanity's efforts to reconcile personal and economic aspirations with social justice and harmony.
I Levitical
II The Wagons
III Mr Yorke
IV Mr Yorke (continued)
v Hollow's Cottage
vI Coriolanus
VII The Curates at Tea
VIII Noah and Moses
IX Briarmains
x OldMaids
xi Fieldhead
XlI Shirley and Caroline
Xili Further Communications on Business
XlV Shirley Seeks to be Saved by Works
xv Mr Donne's Exodus
xvi Whitsuntide
xvii The School Feast
XVili Which the Genteel Reader is Recommended to
Skip, Low Persons being here Introduced
XlX A Summer Night
XX TomoTow
xxI Mrs Pryor
xxn Two Lives
xxIII An Evening Out
xxrv The Valley of the Shadow of Death
xxv The West Wind Blows
xxvi Old Copy-books
xxvn The First Bluestocking
xxvm Phoebe
xxIx Louis Moore
xxx Rushedge - a Confessional
xxxz Uncle and Niece
xxxn The Schoolboy and the Wood-nymph
xxxIn Martin's Tactics
xxxxv Case of Domestic Persecution - Remarkable
Instance of Pious Perseverance in the
Discharge of Religious Duties
xxxv Wherein Matters Make some Progress,
but not much
xxxvi Written in the Schoolroom
xxxvn The Winding-up