Passionate and pain-filled, ferocious in their feeling, Jane Eyre and Villette celebrate the individual. In Shirley Charlotte Bronte chose to look wider to examine 'the warped nature of things'.

Written after the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne, she found it a struggle to finish and in her portraits of Shirley Keeldar and Caroline Helstone Charlotte Bronte poured out her feelings for her dead sisters. Nevertheless, it is a historical novel which depicts an uneasy era of Luddite riots, bad harvests and social unrest as well as Charlotte Bronte's belief that the denial of the world of feeling is responsible for much of society's suffering.

Tense, romantic, atmospheric, ringing with imaginative power, Charlotte Bronte's story of the two women and the men they loved grips until the last page.

I LEVITICAL

II THE WAGGONS

III MR. YORKE

IV MR. YORKE(CONTINUED)

V HOLLOW'S COTTAGE

VI CORIOLANUS

VII THE CURATES AT TEA

VIII NOAH AND MOSES

IX BRIARMAINS

X OLD MAIDS

XI FIELDHEAD

XII SHIRLEY AND CAROLINE

XIII FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS ON BUSINESS

XIV SHIRLEY SEEKS TO BE SAVED BY WORKS

XV MR. DONNE'S EXODUS

XVI WHITSUNTIDE

XVII THE SCHOOL-FEAST

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