Charlotte Bronte

Shirley is social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Bront . It was Bront 's second published novel after Jane Eyre. The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period of 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. The novel's popularity led to Shirley becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon - but distinctly male - name and would have been an unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name.

Villette is an 1853 novel by Charlotte Bront . After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. Villette was Charlotte Bront 's fourth novel. It was preceded by the posthumously published The Professor, her first, and then Jane Eyre and Shirley. Themes Villette is noted not so much for its plot as for its acute tracing of Lucy's psychology. The novel is sometimes celebrated as an exploration of gender roles and repression. In The Madwoman in the Attic, critics Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar have argued that the character of Lucy Snowe is based in part on William Wordsworth's Lucy poems. Gilbert and Gubar emphasise the idea of feminine re-writing. Some critics have explored the issues of Lucy's psychological state in terms of what they call "patriarchal constructs" which form her cultural context. Villette also explores isolation and cross-cultural conflict in Lucy's attempts to master the French language, as well as conflicts between her English Protestantism and Catholicism. Her denunciation of Catholicism is unsparing: e.g., "God is not with Rome." Author's background In 1842 Charlotte Bront , at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a pensionnat (boarding school) run by M. and Mme. Constantin H ger. In return for board and tuition, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. The sisters' time at the pensionnat was cut short when their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, died in October 1842. Elizabeth had joined the family to look after the children after the death of their mother. Charlotte returned, alone, to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the pensionnat. Her second stay in Brussels was not a happy one. She became lonely and homesick, and fell in love with M. H ger, a married man. She finally returned to her family's rectory in Haworth, England, in January 1844. Bront drew on this source material for her first (albeit unsuccessful) novel The Professor. After several publishers had rejected it, Bront reworked the material and made it the basis of Villette. Most literary historians believe that the character of M. Paul Emanuel is closely based upon that of M. H ger. Furthermore, the character of Graham Bretton is widely acknowledged to have been modelled upon Bront 's publisher, George Murray Smith, who was her suitor at one time .

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Bront . It was Bront 's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Bront 's pseudonym Currer Bell). 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. Charlotte Bront (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.

Jane Eyre es una novela escrita por Charlotte Bronte, hoy considerada un cl sico de la literatura en lengua inglesa. El libro es innovador en la forma de pensar y de actuar de la protagonista, Jane Eyre, y en su forma de ver el mundo. Es considerado por muchos como una de las novelas precursoras del feminismo y en su poca fue muy pol mico debido a esta actitud. Ha tenido varias adaptaciones al cine y la televisi n.

This is the most cherished novel from each of England's talented sisters, in one gorgeously packaged volume. The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" and Emily's "Wuthering Heights" have won lofty places in the pantheon and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers. This "Leatherbound Classics" edition unites these two enduring favourites with the lesser known, but no less powerful work by their youngest sister, Anne Bronte. Drawn from Anne's own experiences as a governess, Agnes Grey offers a compelling view of Victorian chauvinism and materialism. Its inclusion makes "The Bronte Sisters" a must-have volume for anyone fascinated by this singularly talented family.

Shirley BY CHARLOTTE BRONT ZHINGOORA BOOKS] CONTENTS. I.Levitical II.The Wagons III.Mr. Yorke IV.Mr. Yorke (continued) V.Hollow's Cottage VI.Coriolanus VII.The Curates at Tea VIII.Noah and Moses IX.Briarmains X.Old Maids XI.Fieldhead XII.Shirley and Caroline XIII.Further Communications on Business XIV.Shirley Seeks to be saved by Works XV.Mr. Donne's Exodus XVI.Whitsuntide XVII.The School Feast XVIII.Which the Genteel Reader is recommended to skip, Low Persons being here introduced XIX.A Summer Night XX.To-morrow XXI.Mrs. Pryor XXII.Two Lives XXIII.An Evening Out XXIV.The Valley of the Shadow of Death XXV.The West Wind blows XXVI.Old Copy-books XXVII.The First Bluestocking XXVIII.Phoebe XXIX.Louis Moore XXX.Rushedge-a Confessional XXXI.Uncle and Niece XXXII.The Schoolboy and the Wood-nymph XXXIII.Martin's Tactics XXXIV.Case of Domestic Persecution-Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties XXXV.Wherein Matters make some Progress, but not much XXXVI.Written in the Schoolroom XXXVII.The Winding-up ________________________________________ SHIRLEY. ________________________________________

'Shirley' is set during the Luddite uprisings in Yorkshire in 1811-12, and deals with themes of social unrest and the relations between the sexes. The title character is modelled on Charlotte's sister (and 'Wuthering Heights' author) Emily Bront , and Caroline Helstone is modelled on Anne Bront .

Charlotte Bront 's most famous novel 'Jane Eyre' is one of the greatest literary achievements of the nineteenth century. A gothic Bildungsroman, it deftly charts its heroine's progress through hardship, cruelty and tribulation, and casts a piercing eye on religion, society and gender relations in the process.

Title: Shirley.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bront, Charlotte; 1893 534 p.; 8 . 012621.g.4.

Title: Shirley.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Bront, Charlotte; 1898. vi, 511 p.; 8 . 012621.l.29.

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur in the house and Jane is forced to leave Thornfield to pursue her future.

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to the wealthy and independent Shirley Keeldar to solve his financial woes, yet his heart lies with his cousin Caroline, who, bored and desperate, lives as a dependent in her uncle's home with no prospect of a career. Shirley, meanwhile, is in love with Robert's brother, an impoverished tutor - a match opposed by her family. As industrial unrest builds to a potentially fatal pitch, can the four be reconciled? Set during the Napoleonic wars at a time of national economic struggles, Shirley (1849) is an unsentimental, yet passionate depiction of conflict between classes, sexes and generations.