Charlotte Bront imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself.Shirley Bront's most feminist novel."Ĭharlotte Brontë was an English novelist, the eldest out of the three famous Brontë sisters whose novels have become standards of English literature. She is a theoretic what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations ofJane Eyre, Shirleydemonstrates the full range of Bront's literary talent."Shirleyis a revolutionary novel," wrote Bront biographer Lyndall Gordon."ShirleyfollowsJane Eyreas a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. Following the tremendous popular success ofJane Eyre,which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bront vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12,Shirley(1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines.
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