#JulyFreecycle Charlotte Brontë – Shirley

A classic. “Charlotte Brontë was a natural storyteller with a gift for creating memorable characters in provoking atmosphere. The novel is that amongst the cloth mills of the author is native Yorkshire and she succeeds brilliantly in creating the full trauma of the latter part of the Napoleonic wars when labour saving machinery was smashed by desperate unemployed workers. Rich and historical detail, Shirley is a human as well as a social novel with a perpetual relevance in the exploration of humanity’s efforts to reconcile personal and economic aspirations with social justice and harmony.”

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