Shirley (Owc) * 2008

- Shirley is Charlotte Bront‰'s only historical novel and her most topical one, and it also expresses her sense of bereavement following the deaths of her three siblings. This new edition partners the most authoritative text with the critically
up-to-date editorial apparatus.
- Book reset to improve its appearance while retaining the authoritative Clarendon edition text
- Janet Gezari's new introduction highlights the personal events in Bront‰'s life that influenced the sense of loss in the novel as well as the social and political context of the Chartist riots, the independence of women, and the relation of Shirley to
Bront‰'s other writing.
- New and up-to-date bibliography.
- Revised notes include translations of all the French phrases in the novel for the first time.

New to this edition

- New introduction by Janet Gezari
- Updated select bibliography
- Revised notes, including translations of all the French in the novel
- Text newly reset to improve appearance.

'You expected bread, and you have got a stone