Free - book via emailing events@theportico.org.uk

Join us to read and discuss Shirley by Charlotte Brontë volume by volume, as originally published in 1849. The Portico Library has first edition volumes of Shirley, which is set in 1811-12, and follows two very different young women born into very different circumstances. It was Charlotte Bronte’s first novel after Jane Eyre and her only historical ‘condition of England’ novel.

Our copy is currently undergoing the conservation work but for this session we hope we’ll have the originals back in the building.

In this session we will be discussing Volume One: Chapters Twenty Four (The Valley of the Shadow) to the end in a zoom meeting and in the Portico Library itself. Please email events@theportico.org.uk to sign up for the link. We will be restricting numbers to a manageable amount for a book club!

You can buy the book from our online bookshop here.