![]() ![]() ![]() 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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