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Shirley / Charlotte Brontë.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brontë, Charlotte, author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cleveland : Duke Classics, 2012.
- System Details:
- Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2653 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 674 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2650 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 671 KB).
- Summary:
- Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Brontë, after Jane Eyre . It is a social novel set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in Yorshire after the Napoleonic Wars, particularly in the depressed textile industry. The novel's heroine is given a boy's name by her father, who expected a son. The novel's popularity turned the distinctly male name Shirley into a distinctly female one.
- Notes:
- Title from eBook information screen.
- ISBN:
- 9781620111321
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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