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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.A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of *Jane Eyre, Shirley* demonstrates the full range of Brontë's literary talent. *"Shirley* is a revolutionary novel," wrote Brontë biographer Lyndall Gordon. *"Shirley* follows *Jane Eyre* as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independenc

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Author

Brontë, Charlotte

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published

1849

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140430950

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.72 / 5 (23,309 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14