Shirley

“Shirley” is an 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë. Her second novel, it was set in post-Napoleonic Wars Yorkshire and follows the centers around the uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. It tackles ideas of gender equality and is responsible for the name Shirley (the female protagonist''s name) becoming a common woman''s name—before the publication of this, it was a distinctly masculine name. ...