Publisher's Synopsis
Shirley, A Tale is a social novel with the aid of the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It turned into Brontë's 2nd published novel after Jane Eyre (initially posted under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is about in Yorkshire in 1811-12, in the course of the industrial despair as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is ready against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings within the Yorkshire textile industry.The novel's recognition caused Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character turned into given the call that her father had meant to provide a son. Before the book of the radical Shirley was an unusual however exceptionally male call.