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Sites about Shirley

by Charlotte Bronte

Set in Yorkshire's depressed wool industry at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The character of Shirley may be based on Emily Bronte, Charlotte's sister.

Characters: Shirley Keeldar, Robert Gerand Moore

Critical sites about Shirley

Consistent Inconsistencies: The Transvestite Actress Madame Vestris and Charlotte Brontë's Shirley

http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ncl-free/504/articles/vanskike.art504.html

" In this paper I propose the transvestite actress Madame Vestris as an interpretive doppelgänger for the title character in Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley. Vestris crossed gender lines not only in her cross-dressed performances on the Victorian stage but also in her incursion into the male-dominated realm of theater ownership. In this way she is like Shirley Keeldar, the fiercely independent female factory owner whom Brontë consistently depicts in masculine terms."

Contains: Character Analysis, Historical Context, Content Analysis

Author: Elliott Vanskike

From: Nineteenth Century Literature vol. 50, no.4, March 1996

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