SOURCE: Webb, Igor. “History and the Novel, and the Novel as History.” In From Custom to Capital: The English Novel and the Industrial Revolution, pp. 101-61. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.
In the following excerpt, Webb considers the historical accuracy of Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley.
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