Shirley. by Charlotte Bronte(currer Bell) Illustrated. (Paperback)

from Luli81

Maybe the less romantic novel by Charlotte, but her most mature work, an account of the changing times in the early XIXth century. The story follows the lives of four main characters. Miss Helstone, a young woman with no prospects, niece of a Curate in Yorkshire, her serious cousin Mr. Moore, a b...

from gypsysmom

I decided to read only about 25 pages a day because it was not the kind of book that lent itself to reading on the bus or at work. Thus, it took me rather a long time to get through it but I think this was an appropriate way to read it. It's not a book you can skim or read quickly. Every sentence...

from karenzukor

My favorite Bronte book. Not so dark and lonely as Jane Eyre (never really liked the Mrs. Rochester part) or Villette (never liked her delusions.) Shirley is an interesting character, a strong woman who makes her own, unconventional decisions in the face of a very convention-bound society. The he...

from LudieGrace

The first chapter of Shirley ("Levitical") hooked me. Nineteenth-century Church of England politics? Yes, please! But the rest of the novel doesn't quite deliver, on that or any other score. Brontë's prose is so pleasant to read that I stayed engaged and ultimately persevered with the book over t...

from aine.fin

I think this is the only Charlotte Bronte I hadn't read years ago. A book of its time. Quite frustrating at points with all the talking around relationships as opposed to actually straight up discussion of them. Love quadrangle. Labour aspects reminded me of Elizabeth Gaskell. Shirley herself was...