![]() ![]() ![]() Brontë set the novel in Yorkshire during the industrial depression in 1811-12 resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The economic depression, and the manufacturers desire to reduce expenses through the installation of machinery, led to the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry. This convention in publishing supported the publishers and the commercial lending libraries, but restricted the number of copies of a novel sold.īrontë issued the work under her nom de plume Currer Bell. At this time the standard or typical publication format for novels in England was the short run expensive three-volume cloth-bound format, in which novels were primarily rented by lending libraries such's Mudie's rather than sold. ![]() In 1849 Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley was published as a 3-decker, or three-volume novel, by Smith, Elder in London. ![]()
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