Shirley

Robert Moore, Bronte's hero, is a Yorkshire mill owner determined to make Hollow's Mill a success with new machinery. Although he loves Caroline Helstone, he pursues the heiress Shirley Keeldar, a passionate and unconventional woman who would scorn to marry for mere social advantage. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, a time of hunger, unemployment, social unrest, and Luddite riots, Shirley affirms the value of feeling and imagination in a world that seeks to deny them. Caroline Helstone personifies the dilemmas of Victorian women, while in Shirley, Bronte draws a portrait of her free-spirited sister Emily. 4 cassettes.