How is it that I never read this book before now? It's magnificent! It's everything I love about Jane Eyre, but with so much more to satisfy my more mature literary palate.It has Charlotte's beautiful, lyric language, serious discussions about religion and spirituality, not just one but two heroin...
Unfortunately, this is no Jane Eyre. But if you want to spend 25 hours listening to a marriage plot where the heroines waste away because of unrequited love, then this might be the book for you. I was disappointed at the sexism in this book. Jane Eyre is such a great heroine and one of the things...
Un gentil visage n'est jamais aussi doux que lorsque le cœur ému s'éclaire d'une tendresse compatissante.
I found Shirley to be an odd book, mainly because Shirley isn't even introduced for quite a few chapters. While it was still enjoyable, I could almost sense Charlotte's struggles as she tried to change her writing to please the critics who hadn't enjoyed Jane Eyre. It was also likely that her emotio...
In SHIRLEY, Charlotte Bronte sets her story among mills, their owners, and workers and strikers, in 1811-1812. I started it to learn about the history and thinking of that time, to use as reference for my new story, but ended up caught up in the story and the original yet universal characters. At 60...
I loved this story almost as much as Jane Eyre..a fascinating story about a woman just as strong as Jane trying to figure her way out in life. I have recommended it several times.
An interesting story with primary source insight into the Industrial Revolution. But the long, fervourous, religious tracks make it quite hard going.
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