Bront�e, Charlotte, 1816-1855,

Shirley / Charlotte Bront�e. - New edition / edited by Herbert Rosengarten and Margaret Smith ; with an introduction and additional notes by Janet Gezari. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020. - 1 online resource (xxxvii, 572 pages). - Oxford world's classics .

This edition previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.

Set in Yorkshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the government and an inadequate Church.

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Yorkshire (England)--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

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