The book takes place in Yorkshire, England, and focuses on uprising that occurred during the time, especially those relating to the textile industry. Her second novel after publishing Jane Eyre, the story popularized a previously only male name into a female one since the name 'Shirley' reflected the title of a book by a female author and about female characters, it took effect on society. Shirley is a novel published in 1849 by the English novelist Charlotte Bronte.

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Letter to Ellen Nussey, 30 June 1839, page 1 A mission-Ĭharlotte Brontë: Ten Letters and a Fictional Fantasy There are no good men of the Brocklehurst species. Has the world gone so well with you that you have no protest to make against its absurdities? Did you never sneer or declaim in your first sketches? I will scold you well when I see you.-I don’t believe in Mr Rivers. It is impossible to squeeze a moral out of your production. You are very different from me in having no doctrine to preach. No sign of this weariness is in your book-you must have had abundance, having kept it all to yourself! If I were to do so I should get tired & weary every one else in about two pages. I expected something more changeable & unfinished. Your novel surprised me by being so perfect as a work of art. The Harlequin has just come from Otago & is to sail for Singapore when the wind changes & by that road route (which I hope to take myself sometime) I send you this. If a cattle vessel came from Sydney she would probably return in a few days & would take a mail, but we have had east wind for a month & nothing can come in.-July 1. There was a little thing with one mast, & also H.M.S. Victoria & looked for a ship to carry a letter to you. After I had read it I went on to the top of Mt. In a believing mood I don’t doubt either of them. I begin to believe in your existence much as I do in Mr Rochester’s. Such events did not happen while I was in England. It seemed to me incredible that you had actually written a book. About a month since I received & read Jane Eyre.

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