BOOK ‘Shirley’ Charlotte Bronte, Cloth Cover Hardback, One Owner, Collins, c.1950. Plus extra post=$2.70 to all NZ. Book “Shirley” by Charlotte Bronte, Publ: Library of Classics, Collins UK, c.1950, cloth red cover, 639 white pages. Spine strong, no wobble. My name and address, no other pen, no pencil. Age spots. Frontispiece black and white portrait of Charlotte Bronte. Love story set in midland England, of two young ladies, Carolina and Shirley.
France is fighting England in 1812. Cotton mill owner, Gerard Moore, is forbidden by Orders in Council to sell his cloth to the Americas. Tyrants and hungry workers try to burn his cotton mill. Shirley owns the land. Excerpt, page 159: “’Let Rose and Jessy talk to me freely, or my chief pleasure in coming here is gone. I like their prattle: it does me good.” ‘Does it not?’ asked Jessy. ‘More good than if the rough lads came round you; you call them rough, mother, yourself.’ ‘Yes, mignonette, a thousand times more good: I have rough lads enough about me all day, poulet’. ‘There are plenty of people,’ continued she, ‘who take notice of the boys: all my uncles and aunts seem to think their nephews better than their nieces; and when gentlemen come here to dine, it is always Matthew, and Mark, and Martin, that are talked to, and never Rose and me. Mr. Moore is OUR friend, and we’ll keep him: but mind, Rose, he’s not so much your friend as he is mine: he is my PARTICULAR ACQUAINTANCE: remember that!’ And she held up her small hand with an admonitory gesture.” Book measures: 11cm X 16cm X 2.2cm. No cigarette. In Birkenhead.