Description
The Details:
This copy is in good condition. Cracking of the front end paper (see photo), but spine good. Owner’s inscription inside. Copy clean and unmarked. No dust jacket.
The Story:
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. (GoodReads)
The Author:
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. (GoodReads)
