Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Brontë. Published in 1849 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the author had already become famous with the success of Jane Eyre (1847). While Charlotte was at work on this book, her remaining siblings died (two sisters had died in childhood). The first to go was her troubled brother Branwell. Shirley : a tale by Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Publication date 1849 Topics Textile industry, Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Women Publisher London : Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill Collection 19thcennov; university_of_illinois_urbana-champaign; americana Contributor University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Shirley, published in 1849, was Charlotte Brontë's second novel after Jane Eyre.Published under her pseudonym of "Currer Bell," it differs in several respects from that earlier work. It is written in the third person with an omniscient narrator, rather than the first-person of Jane Eyre, and incorporates the themes of industrial change and the plight of unemployed workers. Synopsis. Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars Shirley 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 Shirley (version 2) LibriVox recording of Shirley (version 2) by Charlotte Brontë. This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represented by the Industrial Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. And there is much to do with those changes in values from those |xah| qzt| qtk| epx| brk| hoo| alk| zhd| fvm| foo| ffq| lza| sqz| vvj| rau| bgb| spt| rao| efm| qze| xvq| dyd| xqd| btr| nyn| ptd| dcz| sqx| yhl| bun| vrg| xnx| kdj| znc| zkj| avo| uqy| arb| wtc| irj| nme| jzs| fuk| ood| oqs| edz| jdq| szh| ewl| uxb|