| Título : |
SHIRLEY |
| Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
| Autores: |
BRONTE, CHARLOTTE, Autor |
| Editorial: |
LONDON : PENGUIN BOOK |
| Fecha de publicación: |
1985 |
| Número de páginas: |
622p |
| ISBN/ISSN/DL: |
978-0-14-043095-0 |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
| Palabras clave: |
ENGLISH FICTION WOMEN |
| Resumen: |
A new edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1849 classic novel, Shirley, her follow-up novel to her bestseller Jane Eyre. The novel itself is set in depression-wracked Yorkshire during the Luddite uprisings of 1811-1812 and follows the complicated relationship between two friends -- Caroline, a poor and shy young woman with poor prospects, and Shirley, an independent heiress who defies society's expectations -- and their romantic adventures and rivalries amid a world of significant economic and social upheaval. Charlotte Brontë, in her later years, confide that the character of Shirley was modeled after who she imagined her sister Emily would have been had she had greater wealth and lived a longer life.
Shirley was the novel Charlotte was working on when all three of her literary siblings -- Anne, Emily, and her brother Bramwell -- fell ill and died in 1848-1849. Some scholars speculate that certain aspects of the novel were colored by these losses and perhaps reflect Charlotte's way of coping with those tragedies. |
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SHIRLEY
