Paperback, 528 pages
English language
Published March 1, 2004 by Wildside Press.
Shirley
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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.
Subjects
- Classic fiction
- Historical fiction
- Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Fiction
- Literature: Classics
- Classics
- Historical - General
- Fiction / Classics
- Fiction-Historical - General