"Shirley" is the story of a complicated friendship between two very different women: shy and socially constrained Caroline, the poor niece of a tyrannical clergyman; and the independent heiress Shirley, who has both the resources and the spirit to defy convention. The romantic entanglements of the two women with a local mill owner and his penniless brother pit the claims of passion against the boundaries of class and society.
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ISBN: 1853260649 (1993 Wordsworth Classics pbk)
Physical Description:482 p. ; 19 cm.print
Publisher:Ware, Hertfordshire, UK : Wordsworth, 1993.