Shirley by charlotte brontë5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() She suffers misery and frustration, and Shirley has her own ideas about the man she will choose to marry. Robert sees marriage to the wealthy Shirley Keeldar as the solution to his difficulties, but he loves his cousin Caroline. A mill-owner, Robert Moore, is determined to introduce new machinery despite fierce opposition from his workers he ignores their suffering, and puts his own life at risk. ![]() ![]() Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship led to riots in the woollen district of Yorkshire. Shirley is Charlotte e's only historical novel and her most topical one. ![]()
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