![]() ![]() The focus of this discussion is on two characters who, trapped in this painfully static and seemingly interminable historical moment, can find no “relief’: the “Yorkshire girl” Caroline Helstone and the foreign-bom mill-owner Robert Gerard Moore. ![]() The conclusion the narrator draws from a description of the resulting working-class misery is thus germane to many of the novel’s characters: “the war could not be terminated efficient relief could not be raised. ![]() ![]() Although rich in historical incident, the novel presents historical change itself as brought to a bleak standstill: foreign war and blockades have put a stop to trade, mechanization has stalled employment, and economic privation has thwarted marriage plans and domestic fulfillment. Victorians Journal 23 History in the Sickroom: Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley by Kate Lawson Charlotte Bronte recounts incidents in the history of Yorkshire Luddism in Shirley (1849), a novel that combines sustained portraits of the misery of unemployed workers and the hollowness of women’s lives set within the larger context of the Napoleonic wars. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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