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Shirley

Brontë, Charlotte 1816-1855 (Author). Rosengarten, Herbert. (Added Author). Smith, Margaret, 1931- (Added Author).

Summary: Shirley is Charlotte Bronte's only historical novel and her most topical one. The introduction to this new edition considers its autobiographical overtones as well as its social context, and includes revised notes and bibliography. - ;'You expected bread, and you have got a stone; break your teeth on it, and don't shriek...you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob.'. Written at a time of social unrest, it is set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, when economic hardship.

Record details

ISBN: 9780199297160
ISBN: 0199297169
ISBN: 0191538078
ISBN: 9780191538070
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 572 pages).
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Edition: New ed.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages xxix-xxxi).
Formatted Contents Note:	I. The Valley of the Shadow of DeathII. The West Wind Blows; III. Old Copy-Books; IV. The First Blue-Stocking; V. Phœbe; VI. Louis Moore; VII. Rushedge, a Confessional; VIII. Uncle and Niece; IX. The Schoolboy and the Wood-Nymph; X. Martin's Tactics; XI. Case of Domestic Persecution. -- Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties; XII. Wherein Matters make some Progress, but not much; XIII. Written in the Schoolroom; XIV. The Winding-up
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.