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Shirley by Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Bront�

Shirley and Caroline are getting to be friends and have great talks about Yorkshire, nature, poetry, and love...but Shirley will. not. stop bringing up Robert Moore. Girl is fishing and even though I genuinely like her so far, it is so irritating. #MindYourBusinessShirl #GoWhistleAHappyTune #StayFocusedOnYourMill #WhatDoesHisLetterSay #HashtagBrigade

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 12: #shirleyandcarolinehavebeautifultalks #shirleymentionsrobertalot #ihaveconcerns #iwasgoingtouseapicofrobinhood #butthenthishappened #hehasalockofherhair ⁉️ #sir #willoughbymuch ‼️ #omgicant #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @bookwormjillk @kwmg40 @thebookhippie @eeclayton @jacqmac @daisey @mcctrish @elizamarie @clare-dragonfly @ruthiella @thearomaofbooks @larkken @bklover @barbarajean @dabbe @cuilin @lil1inblue 17h

BarkingMadRead @willaful @austen_meets_annie @cindymylifeislit @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @quietjenn @melissajayne @tineke @alldebooks @julieclair @kao @andrea313 @deblovestoread @librarybelle 17h

mcctrish This could go absolutely sideways - Robert is the most eligible of eligible bachelors - Shirley knows Caroline likes him and he potentially likes C BUT Robert would fit in nicely with her inheritance, perhaps let her be Boss Lady? Oy Vey! 16h

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lil1inblue I love Shirley and Caroline's budding friendship! But I'm so nervous about the Robert of it all. 16h

eeclayton Shirley has mentionitis, not a good sign! @lil1inblue I enjoyed the budding friendship, too. 16h

willaful What is she doing, talking up the man she loves! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Or is she trying to warn Shirley?

I get why she's so sure she'll be an old maid now... apparently there literally isn't anyone else of the right social standing to marry?! (edited) 16h

willaful Anyone else getting some “Emma“ vibes? 16h

Bookwormjillk @willaful right? There‘s only Robert and not even another person to picnic with them 15h

ElizaMarie @lil1inblue me too!!! 13h

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 😅🙃 8h

Clare-Dragonfly I‘m pretty convinced now that Shirley is going to marry Robert (though she‘s totally out of his league) and doubly break Caroline‘s heart—but there‘s so much book left, anything could happen! (edited) 2h

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BarbaraJean

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

“I shall not be married, it appears…I suppose, as Robert does not care for me, I shall never have a husband to love, nor little children to take care of. Till lately I had reckoned securely on the duties & affections of wife & mother to occupy my existence...now, I perceive plainly, I may have been mistaken. Probably I shall be an old maid.”

Alas, the trials of being 18—one romantic disappointment = destined for old maid-hood! #HashtagBrigade

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Andrea313

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Bront�

At last, her big entrance!!! But before she landed on the scene, we had to deal with Caroline's continually declining health. Her uncle just noticed and assumes she has....lead poisoning?? But no need to bother about that, time to go see Shirley! #SheHasArrived #SoundTheFanfare #SheRespectsTheTrade #NotLettingHelstoneIntimidateHer #ShirleyIsABoss #NoLiterally #SheActuallyOwnsTheMill #HashtagBrigade

Ruthiella The book and Caroline both needed the breath of fresh air that is Shirley, Esquire. 1d

BookishMarginalia Finally! 1d

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 11: #shirley ‼️‼️ #carolinewantstobeagoverness #unclesayshellno #buthey #letsvisitshirley #shirleyyyyy #whowantstoknowaboutrobert #thatshouldgowell #shirleyseesall #shouldbeinteresting #shedoesnttakeunclesshit #ilikeher #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

BarkingMadRead @willaful @austen_meets_annie @cindymylifeislit @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @quietjenn @melissajayne @tineke @alldebooks @julieclair @kao @andrea313 @deblovestoread @librarybelle 2d

Bookwormjillk I‘m a fan too. Nice to meet you Shirley! 2d

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rubyslippersreads Oh my goodness! 🤣 2d

lil1inblue #nicetofinallymeetyoushirley Did anyone else feel #awkward when Shirley was asking Caroline about Robert? 2d

mcctrish Well let‘s get this party started! Caroline was so lonely and now she has someone to pull her out of her funk 2d

willaful I'm weirdly glad that Shirley turned out to be a woman! But she's obviously who Robert should marry, so that's upsetting.

One the other hand #CarolineDeservesBetter (edited) 2d

Bklover I LIKE Shirley!!! 2d

willaful Is that Deanna Durbin? 2d

BarkingMadRead @willaful it‘s Shirley temple 2d

Ruthiella @lil1inblue Definitely felt awkward. 2d

Ruthiella Finally, Shirley is on the scene! I like her too. 2d

eeclayton I like Shirley, but I was surprised that Shirley was supposed to be a name for a boy. I'm a non-native speaker of English but for me it definitely feels like a girl's name. 2d

willaful @BarkingMadRead lol, of course! I'm not used to her older version. My husband met her once, when he was a little boy. 2d

Clare-Dragonfly Shirley! I like her but now that I know she‘s the one who owns the land… I fear Robert will marry her and Caroline will be even more heartbroken. Since it seems to have been firmly a man‘s name at the time of this writing, I wonder if this book is why it‘s now more commonly a woman‘s name? 2d

willaful @eeclayton In the U.S. it's definitely a girl's name now, but that's a fairly common progression -- once a name starts being used for women, no one names their boys that anymore. 🙄 I was very surprised by Leslie Howard, because I only knew it as a girl's name. 2d

Bklover @Clare-Dragonfly I was googling about this and I read it was a combination of this book and Shirley Temple. However this was who-knows-where on Google! 1d

Austen_meets_Annie @BarkingMadRead @willaful I read a biography on Shirley Temple when I was a teenager. She had fabulous clothes and hair in the 40s. 1d

Austen_meets_Annie 178 pages out of 587 and FINALLY Charlotte Bronte introduces the title character. To say the pace is slow is an understatement. Only 26 more Chapters to go. 😆

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ElizaMarie Oooo she had all the sass and I am here for it! 22h

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Andrea313

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Bront�

Oh noooo, we have to spend today's entire chapter with that most accursed class of people, the Old Maid! At 18, Lina's life is over because she is definitely not going to marry Robert: her Proud Boy uncle got into a political fight with her robber baron crush so the families have gone no-contact. Now Caroline has no other choice but to get to know the town's old maids- after all, she'll be one of them! Link to the pictured article in the comments.

Andrea313 https://thebelladonnacomedy.com/im-mary-hatch-and-it-is-a-wonderful-life-unless-... 3d

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade #IHateAllTheMenInThisSociety #HatingOnWomensLooks #BetTheyreAllGargoyles #RobertMooreIsAHorribleMan #TheOldMaidsAreCool #TeamSpinster 3d

willaful My friend who blogs as “Miss Bates“ coined the term “feral spinster“ and I think it deserves wider recognition! 3d

Ruthiella 😂😂😂 3d

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 10: #robertisavoidingcaroline #whoplanstobeanoldmaid #fiftyisancient ⁉️ #imoffended #anyway #shegoesvisiting #newappreciationforherfuturepeople #embracingtheoldmaidlife #countdowntoshirley #staytuned #hashtagbrigade

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Austen_meets_Annie Good opening line: "Time wore on, and spring matured. The surface of England began to look pleasant: her fields grew green, her hills fresh, her gardens blooming; but at heart she was no better." 3d

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Austen_meets_Annie "He wondered (he remarked parenthetically) what noodle first made it the fashion to teach women French. Nothing was more improper for them. It was like feeding a rickety child on chalk and water gruel." & "Having but an indifferent opinion of women, he always suspected them. He thought they needed constant watching.??? 3d

Bklover As Fanny helps Caroline dress to go visit the “old maids” I find myself wondering about Fanny‘s life. Does she have a life of her own at all? She seems so insignificant. Also, having met the men in this novel, Caroline should consider herself lucky that she isn‘t forced to be married to one of those assholes. Oh, and @Austen_meets_Annie - “they needed constant watching” just about put me over the edge!” 3d

lil1inblue It's so crazy that Caroline is considering resigning herself to be an old maid at 18. 😬 I know times were different and all, but it's still crazy. 3d

Austen_meets_Annie @Bklover so much misogyny this chapter. Is Shirley going to show up and save the day????? 3d

dabbe I think my favorite hashtag thus far is #countdowntoshirley 🤣😍🤣 3d

willaful @dabbe Agreed! I think we were told they come in in the next chapter? I was so tempted to read on! 3d

Bookwormjillk Ladies don‘t be learning French 3d

Clare-Dragonfly @Bklover I keep wondering about the servants too, in this and in so many other 19th-century novels. I suppose the people who had the leisure to write were not people who had ever had to do servant work. The only servant I can think of who is a full character is in Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell. (I‘m embarrassed to say I can‘t remember her name and annoyed that she isn‘t listed in the Wikipedia article.) 3d

Clare-Dragonfly @lil1inblue I‘m chalking it up to typical teenage drama—one man doesn‘t love her, therefore none will! At least, I hope that‘s the case 😅 3d

Bklover @Clare-Dragonfly l need to read Ruth - I know we read it last year but for some reason I didn‘t do that one. I did buy it though! 3d

mcctrish Ugh, this was depressing #countdowntoanything 3d

dabbe @mcctrish #nownewfavoritehashtag 🤣😍🤣 2d

ElizaMarie I agree! @bklover being an old maid might be favorable than marrying one of these horrible men! 2d

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Bookwormjillk

Shirley | Charlotte Bront�

Breakfast with Shirley before the day begins. Or not as the case may be #countdowntoshirley #hashtagbrigade

Soubhiville What a pretty mug! 3d

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Andrea313

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte | Charlotte Bront�

Robert Moore, if you don't knock this shit off...! In today's chapter, he goes to visit Yorke and we're subjected to too many pages about Yorke's twee daughters and his incel son. It's all pretty off-putting, especially when Rob flirts with the little girls?! Like, I guess it could be an attempt at being playful but it was just weird. Also our omniscient narrator talking about when some of these kids will die?? What is this, Bridge to Terabithia??

Andrea313 #HashtagBrigade #ChildrenWrittenPoorly #RemindsMeOfLittleWomenAndBhaer #ThoseKidsSucked #MoorePleadingForFerransJob #EmployHimYourselfAsshole #Hypocrite 3d

lil1inblue 🎯🎯🎯 3d

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BarkingMadRead

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, Fiction | Charlotte Bront�

Ch 9: #ihavesomuchtosay #theyorkehouseholdisinsane #jessyandroseflirtwithrobert #thesykesaretrashtalkinghim #carolinedefendshim #heisworkingtogetfarrenajob #also #hesbroke #nowifeforhim #yorkewantshimtomarryarichwoman #poorcaroline #staytuned #countdowntoshirley #hashtagbrigade

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Ruthiella For everyone who has a bone to pick with Charles Dickens (whom I love), I present this unnecessarily long chapter with information about the Yorke family I doubt we‘ll need later. 4d

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BarkingMadRead @Ruthiella 💯💯💯 4d

Bookwormjillk @Ruthiella Yes! York family do you even go here???? 4d

lil1inblue @Ruthiella 💯😅 4d

lil1inblue The Yorke daughters' flirting, and Robert's reponse, made me feel the ick. 4d

BarkingMadRead @lil1inblue I feel like they‘re a little too old for this to be cute 4d

lil1inblue @BarkingMadRead 💯 Too old for it to be cute, and too young for it to be appropriate. 4d

TheBookHippie @Ruthiella 🤣🤣🤣🤣 4d

Austen_meets_Annie @Ruthiella 🤣 4d

Austen_meets_Annie I'm switching from audio to kindle. Audiobook that I got on Hoopla has no Chapters. So you never know how long it's going to be and makes it impossible to swap between. 4d

Clare-Dragonfly Notice how she said she wasn‘t going to say much about the evil oldest brother (I already forgot his name and they all start with M) and then the paragraph on him was literally the longest of any of the boys? @lil1inblue yuuuuuuuuuup 4d

dabbe @Ruthiella 🎯🤣🎯 4d

dabbe @Clare-Dragonfly 🎯🤣🎯 4d

willaful @Ruthiella LOL! 4d

dabbe Am I also right in thinking that Moore loses Farren's job because, you know, #industrialrevolutioncrap but then wants Yorke to hire him so he doesn'r feel guilty? Nice. Not. 4d

BookishMarginalia It‘s a lot 😵‍💫 4d

Bklover @Austen_meets_Annie I must have tried the same one! It just kept going and going. Went back to my paperback. 😊 3d

ElizaMarie @BarkingMadRead @lil1inblue — at first I thought it was cute, then—- I was like wait a sec—- the ages don‘t quite line up to be cute! 3d

Clare-Dragonfly So, Moore needs a rich wife. Didn‘t she say earlier that Moore and Helstone are joint guardians of the minor whose land the mill is on? What if that‘s Caroline? And then he‘ll marry her because she owns land, not because he feels the same way about her as she does about him… 3d

mcctrish @Clare-Dragonfly I thought he had feelings for her and that‘s why he won‘t marry an old bejewelled woman? Also who could bear to look at an old women #disturbsmysensibilities Martin hates the womanites, news flash; the womanites hate Martin and being able to eat porridge off the floor is the standard to which all womanites should aspire to. 3d

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