Shirley

"Shirley" is an 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë. Her second novel, it was set in post-Napoleonic Wars Yorkshire and follows the centers around the uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. It tackles ideas of gender equality and is responsible for the name Shirley (the female protagonist's name) becoming a common woman's name-before the publication of this, it was a distinctly masculine name. Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, and the oldest sister in th ...