TY - BOOK AU - Brontë,Charlotte TI - Shirley AV - PR PY - 2009/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Historical fiction KW - Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction KW - Women -- England -- Fiction KW - Textile industry -- Fiction KW - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_(novel); Release date is 2009-11-16; Brenda Lewis, Fox in the Stars and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë is a social novel published in 1849. Set in Yorkshire during the industrial depression of 1811-12, the story unfolds against the backdrop of Luddite uprisings in the textile industry. Mill owner Robert Moore faces ruin as he battles labor unrest and economic hardship. His cousin Caroline loves him from afar, but Robert cannot afford to marry. When spirited heiress Shirley enters their lives, she becomes Caroline's close friend—yet Caroline fears Shirley and Robert will unite, threatening her own fragile hopes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30486 ER -