IDENTITY
Shirley
Literature
Work Summary
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell) is a novel set against industrial conflict in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars and centred particularly on Caroline Helstone and the independent heiress Shirley Keeldar. It combines relationships and questions of women's social position with economic hardship, class conflict and opposition to industrial machinery.
Evidence Summary
He warmly recommends it and says it is as beautiful as paintings by Millais, Boughton or Herkomer.
Direct literature–painting comparison.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Charlotte Brontë (Currer Bell)
Work
Shirley
Years / Period
5 Aug 1881
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Compared / Connected, Recommended / Sent
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
5 Aug 1881 — Letter 170
Compared / Connected · Read / recommended / compared with painting
Van Gogh says he found Shirley at Princenhage and read it in three days.
Response: He warmly recommends it and says it is as beautiful as paintings by Millais, Boughton or Herkomer.
Connection: Direct literature–painting comparison.
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