Shirley  by Charlotte Brontë

First published in the year 1849, the present novel ‘Shirley’ by one of the most famous novelists of the Victoirian era and one of the famous three Bronte sisters in the English literary history – Charlotte Brontë. 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.