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Shirley

"Following the tremendous success of Jane Eyre Charlotte BrontE returned to pen a novel every bit as romantic and compelling as her first, but with deeper, heartier themes as she captured the social and political currents of the newly industrialised United Kingdom of 1812. Set in a chaotic time in England, during the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Caroline Helstone's world is turned upside down when she meets the vivacious Shirley Keeldar. Shirley becomes a beacon of light for Caroline as the two become close friends. However, Caroline is soon shocked to discover that Shirley has won the affections of Robert Moore, the impoverished mill owner whom she loves. Fully representative of Yorkshire life at the time, BrontE's second novel is completely gripping, unrelenting and utterly wrenching in its portrayal of steadfast love."

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  • ""Following the tremendous success of Jane Eyre Charlotte BrontE returned to pen a novel every bit as romantic and compelling as her first, but with deeper, heartier themes as she captured the social and political currents of the newly industrialised United Kingdom of 1812. Set in a chaotic time in England, during the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Caroline Helstone's world is turned upside down when she meets the vivacious Shirley Keeldar. Shirley becomes a beacon of light for Caroline as the two become close friends. However, Caroline is soon shocked to discover that Shirley has won the affections of Robert Moore, the impoverished mill owner whom she loves. Fully representative of Yorkshire life at the time, BrontE's second novel is completely gripping, unrelenting and utterly wrenching in its portrayal of steadfast love.""@en
  • "Robert, a millowner in Yorkshire, introduces labour-saving devices, which lead to workmen's riots. In financial difficulty, he proposes to the spirited Shirley, a wealthy heiress, who admires Robert's proud brother, a tutor in her family."@en
  • "This novel depicts a mill owner, Robert, whose business is struggling and in turn rejects his attraction to an orphaned woman, Carolne, in favour of proposing to a rich landowner, Shirley. Shirley rejects him as she loves Robert's poor brother, Louis, but has too much pride to admit her feelings."@en
  • "Set in the industrialising England of the Napoleonic wars - a period of bad harvests, Luddite riots and economic unrest - Shirley is the story of two contrasting heroines and the men they love. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory, whose life represents the plight of single women in the 19th century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention."@en
  • "The story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources and the spirit to defy convention. The romantic entanglements of the two women with a local mill owner and his penniless brother pit the claims of passion against the boundaries of class and society."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Kvindeskildringer"@da
  • "Talking books"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en

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  • "Shirley"

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