Binding: Paperback
Description: Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline who bored and desperate lives as a dependent in her uncle's home with no prospect of a career. Shirley meanwhile is in love with Robert's brother an impoverished tutor - a match opposed by her family. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch can the four be reconciled? Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles Shirley (1849) is an unsentimental yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes sexes and generations.
Title: Shirley
Author(s): Bronte Charlotte
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Barcode: 9780141439860
Pages: 704 Pages
Publication Date: 9/26/2006
Category: Classic Fiction