Shirley

"e;I believe in the spirit of the age; it is a spirit of progress, though its path is often through blood."e;Set in Yorkshire during the turbulent years of 1811 1812, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's most ambitious social novel. Against a backdrop of the Luddite riots and the economic strangulation of the Napoleonic Wars, the story weaves together the lives of two very different women: the shy, repre...