Shirley (version 2)
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142
1849
English
- Levitical
- The wagons
- Mr. York
- Mr. York (continued)
- Hollow's cottage
- Coriolanus
- The Curates at Tea
- Noah and Moses
- Briarmains
- Old maids
- Fieldhead
- Shirley and Caroline
- Further communications on business
- Shirley seeks to be saved by works
- Mr. Donne's exodus
- Whitsuntide
- The school feast
- Which the genteel reader is recommended to skip, low persons being here introduced
- A summer night
- To-morrow
- Mrs. Pryor
- Two lives
- An evening out
- The valley of the shadow of death
- The west wind blows
- Old copy-books
- The first bluestocking
- Phoebe
- Louis Moore
- Rushedge - a confessional
- Uncle and niece
- The schoolboy and the wood-nymph
- Martin's tactics
- Case of domestic persecution - remarkable instance of pious perseverance in the discharge of religious duties
- Wherein matters make some progress, but not much
- Written in the schoolroom
- The winding-up
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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