• Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)

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Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)

By: ciesse
  • Summary

  • Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–1812, 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. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Episodes
  • Written in the Schoolroom Part 1
    23 mins
  • Written in the Schoolroom Part 2
    24 mins
  • The Winding-Up
    Jan 10 2024
    39 mins

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