Shirley (version 2)

Author: Charlotte Brontë

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This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represented by the Industrial Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. And there is much to do with those changes in values from those of the past. But at its core, this novel is about romance. And the plot primarily follows the struggles and triumphs of two couples, the two brothers Moore, Louis and Robert, and Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keeldar. The final scenes capture the essence of the change in this world, and one hopes for the more philanthropic and egalitarian world pictured there, but at the same time one laments the loss of a world of magic and of a respect for natural beauty. - Summary by Jim Locke

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LeviticalThe wagonsMr. YorkMr. York (continued)Hollow's cottageCoriolanusThe Curates at TeaNoah and MosesBriarmainsOld maidsFieldheadShirley and CarolineFurther communications on businessShirley seeks to be saved by worksMr. Donne's exodusWhitsuntideThe school feastWhich the genteel reader is recommended to skip, low persons being here introducedA summer nightTo-morrowMrs. PryorTwo livesAn evening outThe valley of the shadow of deathThe west wind blowsOld copy-booksThe first bluestockingPhoebeLouis MooreRushedge - a confessionalUncle and nieceThe schoolboy and the wood-nymphMartin's tacticsCase of domestic persecution - remarkable instance of pious perseverance in the discharge of religious dutiesWherein matters make some progress, but not muchWritten in the schoolroomThe winding-up

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