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    Shirley
    Shirley
    Shirley
    Audiobook22 hours

    Shirley

    Written by Charlotte Brontë

    Narrated by Anna Cohen, Cynthia Franklin and Helen Pyle

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    Shirley, A Tale is a social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1849. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.
    The novel's popularity led to Shirley's becoming a woman's name. The title character was given the name that her father had intended to give a son. Before the publication of the novel Shirley was an uncommon but distinctly male name. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParolita Libro
    Release dateMay 1, 2020
    Author

    Charlotte Brontë

    Charlotte Bronte nació en 1816 en Thronton (Yorkshire), tercera hija de Patrick Brontë y Maria Branwell. En 1820 el padre fue nombrado vicario perpetuo de la pequeña aldea de Haworth, en los páramos de Yorkshire, y allí pasaría Charlotte casi toda su vida. Huérfanos de madre a muy corta edad, los cinco hermanos Brontë fueron educados por una tía. En 1824, Charlotte, junto con sus hermanas Emily, Elizabeth y Maria, acudió a una escuela para hijas de clérigos; Elizabeth y Maria murieron ese mismo año, y Charlotte siempre lo atribuyó a las malas condiciones del internado. Estudiaría posteriormente un año en una escuela privada, donde ejerció asimismo como maestra; fue luego institutriz, y maestra de nuevo en un pensionado de Bruselas, donde en 1842 estuvo interna con Emily. De vuelta a Haworth, en 1846 consiguió publicar un volumen de Poesías con sus hermanas Emily y Anne, con el pseudónimo, respectivamente, de Currer, Ellis y Acton Bell. Su primera novela, El profesor (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XLIV), no encontró editor, y no sería publicada hasta 1857. Pero, como Currer Bell, publicó con éxito Jane Eyre (1847; ALBA CLÁSICA MAIOR núm. IV). En 1848, mientras morían a su alrededor Emily y Anne y su hermano Branwell, escribió Shirley (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XXX), que sería publicada al año siguiente. Su última novela fue Villette (1853). Charlotte se casó con el reverendo A. B. Nicholls un año antes de morir en 1855.

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