Set amid Luddite unrest in Yorkshire, the fortunes of mill-owner Robert Moore entwine with those of the gentle Caroline Helstone and the spirited heiress Shirley Keeldar.
Books mentioned in Shirley (3)
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare: “Here's Shakespeare," she said, "and there's 'Coriolanus.' Now, read, and discover by the feelings the reading will give you at once how low and how high you are."”
The Italian by Ann Radcliffe: “Approaching quietly, she knelt on the carpet at her side, and looked over her little shoulder at her book. It was a romance of Mrs. Radcliffe's--"The Italian."”
A Thousand and One Nights: “if a magician or a genius had, at that moment, offered me Prince Ali's tube (you remember it in the 'Arabian Nights'?)”