Shirley

Shirley
Charlotte Bronte

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.’Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Brontë’s only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Struggling Mill owner Robert Moore considers marriage to the monied Shirley in order to secure his financial future, however it is Caroline who he loves while Shirley has fallen for Robert’s brother, an impoverished tutor who is deemed an unsuitable match for her. Unsentimental, yet unflinching in its honest portrayal of love, class conflict and identity, Brontë uses the backdrop of her beloved Yorkshire to play out the tensions and dramas of a society facing social and industrial upheaval.

SHIRLEY

Charlotte Brontë

CONTENTS

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Title Page (#ude203a84-9ca5-5fde-b8e0-56cada8642dd)

Chapter 1: Levitical (#ua29850b1-a3f7-52f8-9b7b-77595fa1a6e4)

Chapter 2: The Wagons (#uc5338312-c9a1-50ce-a9d9-266515c2aab8)

Chapter 3: Mr. Yorke (#u1147d36a-975c-5d59-9d27-fe8c982ecc30)

Chapter 4: Mr. Yorke (continued) (#ua4d95b1c-1dcd-5732-af62-8ae42e7f9e91)

Chapter 5: Hollow’s Cottage (#ua7790225-51e3-586d-a5b8-67ebb08fd88f)

Chapter 6: Coriolanus (#ue882b7b4-8488-5d4e-bee5-ccaa3022c717)

Chapter 7: The Curates at Tea (#u6bf42adf-a48c-54d5-b0ee-c99ed45fd1e7)

Chapter 8: Noah and Moses (#ud9796b42-8a00-5715-9f02-b1a6bc73fb22)

Chapter 9: Briarmains (#u6c0d96a3-2f9d-5a09-994f-ea528764f262)

Chapter 10: Old Maids (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11: Fieldhead (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12: Shirley and Caroline (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13: Further Communications on Business (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14: Shirley Seeks to be Saved by Works (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15: Mr. Donne’s Exodus (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16: Whitsuntide (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17: The School Feast (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18: Which the Genteel Reader is Recommended to Skip, Low Persons Being Here introduced (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19: A Summer Night (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20: To-morrow (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21: Mrs. Pryor (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22: Two Lives (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23: An Evening Out (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 24: The Valley of the Shadow of Death (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 25: The West Wind Blows (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 26: Old Copy-books (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 27: The First Bluestocking (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 28: Phoebe (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 29: Louis Moore (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 30: Rushedge—A Confessional (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 31: Uncle and Niece (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 32: The Schoolboy and the Wood-nymph (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 33: Martin’s Tactics (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 34: Case of Domestic Persecution—Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 35: Wherein Matters Make Some Progress, But Not Much (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 36: Written in the Schoolroom (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 37: The Winding-up (#litres_trial_promo)

Classic Literature: Words and Phrases Adapted from the Collins English Dictionary (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

History of Collins (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 1 Levitical (#ulink_d183d6ca-a9e2-56bf-80af-e1748839c60b)