Shirley

Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Bronte

• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Year: 2012
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781625585417
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Levitical.
• The Wagons.
• Mr. Yorke.
• Mr. Yorke (Continued).
• Hollow’s Cottage.
• Coriolanus.
• The Curates at Tea.
• Noah and Moses.
• Briarmains.
• Old Maids.
• Fieldhead.
• Shirley and Caroline.
• Further Communications on Business.
• Shirley Seeks to Be Saved by Works.
• Mr. Donne’s Exodus.
• Whitsuntide.
• The School Feast.
• Which the Genteel Reader Is Recommended to Skip, Low Persons Being Here Introduced.
• A Summer Night.
• To-morrow.
• Mrs. Pryor.
• Two Lives.
• An Evening Out.
• The Valley of the Shadow of Death.
• The West Wind Blows.
• Old Copy-books.
• The First Bluestocking.
• Phœbe.
• Louis Moore.
• Rushedge—a Confessional.
• Uncle and Niece.
• The Schoolboy and the Wood-nymph.
• Martin’s Tactics.
• Case of Domestic Persecution—Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties.
• Wherein Matters Make Some Progress, but Not Much.
• Written in the Schoolroom.
• The Winding-up.