Entries for the tag ‘Shirley’
Social novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1849, set in Yorkshire in 1811-12 during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812 and against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the textile industry. 
- 12 June 1810: Curate Patrick Brontë anticipates muscular Christianity and creates material for Charlotte during a Whit walk from Dewsbury to Earlsheaton
- 11 April 1812: On a moonless night, “the army of General Ludd” attacks William Cartwright’s mill at Rawfolds (Cleckheaton) – later providing inspiration for Charlotte Brontë’s “Shirley”
- 28 April 1812: Methodist Luddites fatally wound the textile manufacturer William Horsfall on his way home from Huddersfield market
- 19 May 1812: An Anglican Whit walk encounters a Nonconformist one at “Briarfield” (Birstall), amid Luddites and wars with France and the US, in the imagination of Charlotte Brontë
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