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Shirley Annotated

出版	Independently Published, 2020-12-04
主題	Fiction / Romance / General
ISBN	9798576557394
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aEAyzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Shirley is a classic historical novel by Charlotte Brontë. Written in 1849 after the overwhelming success of Jane Eyre, the book follows two women from very different social circles who show their communities what women are capable of. The book is generally regarded as Brontë's most feminist novel, and it is still widely read today. Her biographer called it a "revolutionary" text. Charlotte Brontë was the eldest of the famous Brontë sisters, whose novels are among the highest-regarded in English literature. She was not in good health and died at only thirty-eight while carrying her unborn child.There are two heroes in Shirley, Caroline Helstone and Shirley Keeldar. They both live in early nineteenth-century England during the Industrial Revolution, but they lead very different lives. Caroline is a poor single woman who lives in Yorkshire with her uncle, as her parents are dead. She loves a mill owner, Robert, of whom her uncle doesn't approve. She assumes that her life will never amount to anything and that she will never be anything more than a burden on her uncle.Shirley, on the other hand, enjoys her life. The only child of a middle-class family, her parents also dead, she inherits their estate and the wealth that goes along with it. Although she is still under the care of a governess, Mrs. Pryor, she has the freedom to make her own decisions. Not knowing what it's like to be trapped by circumstances, she's always looking for ways to become more involved in decisions that women don't typically have any say in, such as business and investment decisions.