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Shirley

Charlotte Brontë

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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
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Edition1859 · Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie
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