Description

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë’s second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë’s pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811’1812, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.

Features;

• Heather Edition arranged by Phyllis Bentley
• Publisher Wingate, London; 1949
• Purple Cloth Hardback, 624 pp
• Size 190 x 130mm, 750g

Condition: Very Good – Clear Mylar Dust Jacket with Paper Sleeves, No Inscriptions, Very Good Copy