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The novel has reputed to have been the inspiration for the name 'Shirley' to become a woman's name. Faded Page hosts Brontë's second novel, 'Shirley', a melodrama about two women set against the backdrop of England's Industrial Revolution. In Jane Eyre, the heroine, a plain woman of no means, fights hard to win her heart's desire and was seen as an early model for today's feminist movement. She pioneered the first person narrative that focused on the protagonist's moral and spiritual development. She is well known for her book 'Jane Eyre'. A beautiful copy.Charlotte Brontë (1817-1855) was an English novelist and poet. Princeton University Library Brontë Collection, 74, 75. Without half titles, as issued with 16-page publisher's catalogue at the rear of Volume I and three pages of advertisements at the rear of Volume III.

''Charlotte Brontë's most social novel intended in her own words to be 'unromantic as Monday morningShirley herself is an attempt to portray a woman with freedom and power to actshe was intended to be what Emily Brontë might have been 'had she been placed in health and prosperity'' (Drabble, 900). It questions men's power over women and workers a more substantially radical work than Agnes Grey, as ambitious in its own way as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights'' (Gordon, 180, 184). $4200.First edition of this important Brontë novel, beautifully bound with original cloth covers and spines bound in at the rear of each volume.''Shirley is a revolutionary novel. Octavo, period-style full red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. By Currer Bell, Author of ''Jane Eyre.'' London: Smith, Elder, 1849.

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