SOURCE: "'Varieties of Pain': The Victorian Sickroom and Brontë's Shirley," in Modern Language Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3, September, 1987, pp. 254-78.
In the following essay, Bailin views Charlotte Brontë's Shirley as exemplary of the way in which Victorian novels portray the events and experiences surrounding a character's illness as reflective of human life in general.
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