by Edmund Dulac (Illustrator), Charlotte Bronte (Author)
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Bront . It was Bront 's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Bront 's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.
Author Biography
Charlotte Brontë ( 21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.
Number of Pages: 546
Dimensions: 1.1 x 9.02 x 5.98 IN
Publication Date: October 22, 2017