Shirley

Welcome to the world of Mogul Classics Books. In this Classic Edition of Shirley by English author Charlotte Brontë, we are proud to offer you the best edition of this classic, one of the most loved and timeless stories of all times.

Shirley is a social novel set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell).

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 and would have been an unusual name for a woman. Today it is regarded as a distinctly female name and an uncommon male name.

As you read this Mogul Classics Books edition of Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley, you will relive one of the most acclaimed novels of the early 19th century.