Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
Public domain
Category: General Fiction
Narrator: Georgina Sutton
Tags: General Fiction, Classic, Literature, Adults
Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins Files: MP3 _______________________________________________, Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bront vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on something real and unromantic as Monday morning. Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention., A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Bronts literary talent. Shirley is a revolutionary novel, wrote Bront biographer Lyndall Gordon. Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so mu
