Cover of Shirley

Shirley

by Charlotte Brontë

Chapter 1 of 58 Levitical

0:00 30:40

Running time
23 h 21 min
Language
English
Readers
A. Janelle Risa, A. Knight, Ann Boulais, Cynthia Lyons (1946-2011), Elizabeth Klett and 16 others

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About this recording

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.

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