num_pages: 720
description: A spirited heiress marries the brother of a Yorkshire mill owner who produces laborsaving devices that cause unemployment and workmen's riots during the early 1800s.
language: English
title: Shirley
titlecomplete: Shirley
characters: Shirley Keeldar, Robert Moore, Caroline Helstone, Louis Moore
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Victorian
ratings_count: 34037
places: United Kingdom, Yorkshire, England, England
publisher: Oxford University Press