Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

506 pages first pub 1849 (editions)

fiction classics literary romance emotional reflective slow-paced
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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.

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