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Shirley, A Tale

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Last updated: 2023/03/04 at 11:04 AM
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Shirley, A Tale by Charlotte Brontë

Author: Charlotte Brontë | Published: 1849

Shirley Synopsis

Shirley revolves around the lives of two women born into very different circumstances during the Industrial Revolution.

Excerpt from Shirley Online Book

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England: they lie very thick on the hills; every parish has one or more of them; they are young enough to be very active, and ought to be doing a great deal of good. But not of late years are we about to speak; we are going back to the beginning of this century: late years—present years are dusty, sunburnt, hot, arid; we will evade the noon, forget it in siesta, pass the midday in slumber, and dream of dawn.

If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool, and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. It is not positively affirmed that you shall not have a taste of the exciting, perhaps towards the middle and close of the meal, but it is resolved that the first dish set upon the table shall be one that a Catholic—ay, even an Anglo-Catholic—might eat on Good Friday in Passion Week: it shall be cold lentils and vinegar without oil; it shall be unleavened bread with bitter herbs, and no roast lamb.

Find out more about Charlotte Brontë at sevenov.com.

Charlotte Brontë's Books on PageVio

Novels: Jane Eyre | Shirley | Villette | The Professor

Juvenilia: The Search After Happiness

Non-fiction: Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell

Poetry: Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel | Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Here's a full list of Charlotte Brontë's books.

Genres: Fiction, Historical, Realistic, Romance
Completed: Yes
Word Count: 216283

Table of Contents

  • INSIDE COVER (22 words)
  • CHAPTER I. LEVITICAL. (4905 words)
  • CHAPTER II. THE WAGONS. (5984 words)
  • CHAPTER III. MR. YORKE. (3288 words)
  • CHAPTER IV. MR. YORKE (continued). (4282 words)
  • CHAPTER V. HOLLOW'S COTTAGE. (5980 words)
  • CHAPTER VI. CORIOLANUS. (7283 words)
  • CHAPTER VII. THE CURATES AT TEA. (10060 words)
  • CHAPTER VIII. NOAH AND MOSES. (6045 words)
  • CHAPTER IX. BRIARMAINS. (8299 words)
  • CHAPTER X. OLD MAIDS. (6931 words)
  • CHAPTER XI. FIELDHEAD. (6354 words)
  • CHAPTER XII. SHIRLEY AND CAROLINE. (7689 words)
  • CHAPTER XIII. FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS ON BUSINESS. (9798 words)
  • CHAPTER XIV. SHIRLEY SEEKS TO BE SAVED BY WORKS. (5326 words)
  • CHAPTER XV. MR. DONNE'S EXODUS. (5216 words)
  • CHAPTER XVI. WHITSUNTIDE. (4345 words)
  • CHAPTER XVII. THE SCHOOL FEAST. (5848 words)
  • CHAPTER XVIII. WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED. (4326 words)
  • CHAPTER XIX. A SUMMER NIGHT. (5928 words)
  • CHAPTER XX. TO-MORROW. (4761 words)
  • CHAPTER XXI. MRS. PRYOR. (6608 words)
  • CHAPTER XXII. TWO LIVES. (3966 words)
  • CHAPTER XXIII. AN EVENING OUT. (7451 words)
  • CHAPTER XXIV. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH. (7094 words)
  • CHAPTER XXV. THE WEST WIND BLOWS. (2856 words)
  • CHAPTER XXVI. OLD COPY-BOOKS. (6451 words)
  • CHAPTER XXVII. THE FIRST BLUESTOCKING. (8269 words)
  • CHAPTER XXVIII. PHŒBE. (7525 words)
  • CHAPTER XXIX. LOUIS MOORE. (3256 words)
  • CHAPTER XXX. RUSHEDGE—A CONFESSIONAL. (5655 words)
  • CHAPTER XXXI. UNCLE AND NIECE. (5504 words)
  • CHAPTER XXXII. THE SCHOOLBOY AND THE WOOD-NYMPH. (4335 words)
  • CHAPTER XXXIII. MARTIN'S TACTICS. (3756 words)
  • CHAPTER XXXIV. CASE OF DOMESTIC PERSECUTION—REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF PIOUS PERSEVERANCE IN THE DISCHARGE OF RELIGIOUS DUTIES. (2742 words)
  • CHAPTER XXXV. WHEREIN MATTERS MAKE SOME PROGRESS, BUT NOT MUCH. (4516 words)
  • CHAPTER XXXVI. WRITTEN IN THE SCHOOLROOM. (8423 words)
  • CHAPTER XXXVII. THE WINDING-UP. (5206 words)

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