| Shirley Charlotte Brontė Contributor(s): Benitez, Paula (Editor), Brontė, Charlotte (Author) |
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ISBN: 1540365778 ISBN-13: 9781540365774 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $23.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6" W x 9" (1.51 lbs) 470 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Bront . It was Bront 's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Bront 's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon - but distinctly male - name and would have been an unusual name for a woman. 1] Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name. |