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Shirley
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About this work
The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, 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.
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Subjects
- English fiction
- Roman anglais
- Textile industry
- Fiction
- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
- Women
- History
- Social conditions