Shirley

Charlotte Brontë's ambitious social novel.

At a glance Set amid the unrest of the Yorkshire textile trade, it follows two very different women… In a Yorkshire riven by economic crisis and machine-breaking unrest, two young women… What it's about Against the backdrop of the Luddite disturbances of the early nineteenth… Caroline is gentle and constrained, pining for a mill owner preoccupied with his failing…

Against the backdrop of the Luddite disturbances of the early nineteenth century, when hard-pressed cloth workers rose against the new machinery threatening their livelihoods, Charlotte Brontë tells the intertwined…