Following the success of Jane Eyre, in 1848 Charlotte began work on the manuscript of her second novel, Shirley.

* Charlotte Brontë's novel Shirley ( 1849 ), set during the Napoleonic Wars, explores some of the economic effects of war on rural Yorkshire.

Avonlea ( ah-von-LEE ) is a fictional community located on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and is the setting of Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel Anne of Green Gables, following the adventures of Anne Shirley, as well as its sequels, and the television series Road to Avonlea.

This semi-documentary looking movie was produced by Frederick Wiseman, directed by Shirley Clarke and adapted by her and Carl Lee from the 1959 novel The Cool World by Warren Miller.

* To the Last Man ( film ) is a 1933 Henry Hathaway film based on the Zane Grey novel starring Randolph Scott, Esther Ralston, Buster Crabbe, Barton MacLane, Noah Beery, Shirley Temple, and Eugenie Besserer.

The riots provided Charlotte Brontë with material for her novel Shirley.

Charlotte Brontë immortalised the family and the house in her novel Shirley.

With James Dean in East of EdenHarris played the ethereal Eleanor Lance in The Haunting ( 1963 ), director Robert Wise's screen adaptation of a novel by Shirley Jackson, a classic film of the horror genre.

The book by Thigpen and Cleckley was rushed into publication, and the film rights were immediately sold to director Nunnally Johnson in 1957, apparently to capitalize on public interest in multiple personalities following the publication of Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel, The Birds ' Nest, which was also made into a film in 1957 titled Lizzie.

Her 1962 novel, Madame Sousatzka, was made into a film in 1988, with Shabana Azmi and Shirley MacLaine.

Anne Shirley is a fictional character introduced in the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

In addition to Dracula, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House ( the opening passage of which King employed as an epigraph for Part One of his novel ) and Grace Metalious ' Peyton Place are often cited as inspirations for < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Salem's Lot.

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë.

Before the publication of the novel, Shirley was an uncommon-but distinctly male-name and would have been an unusual name for a woman.

Shirley is what Brontë believed her sister, Emily Brontë, would have been if she had been born into a wealthy family. The maiden name of Mrs. Pryor is Agnes Grey, the name of the main character in Anne's first novel.

The novel ends with Caroline and Shirley marrying the two brothers, Robert and Louis, respectively.

Transit of Venus is also a novel by Shirley Hazzard.

He published stories by such writers as Booth Tarkington and F. Scott Fitzgerald, nonfiction pieces by women such as Shirley Temple's mother and Eleanor Roosevelt, and articles on the Wall Street Crash of 1929 by men like Cornelius Vanderbilt and Eddie Cantor, as well as a complete novel in each issue.

Gilbert's most successful early novel was Shirley Hall Asylum: Or the Memoirs of a Monomaniac ( 1863 ), which told the stories of inmates of a lunatic asylum from the point of view of an escapee driven mad by trying to solve the problem of perpetual motion.

* Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel The Birds ' Nest is about a young woman with multiple personalities.

Captain January is an 1891 children's novel, written by Laura E. Richards, and later transformed into two films, the 1924 silent film Captain January, starring Baby Peggy Montgomery and the 1936 musical film Captain January, starring Shirley Temple.

* Shirley Hazzard's novel The Great Fire wins the Miles Franklin Award

The Keepers of the House is a 1964 novel by Shirley Ann Grau set in rural Alabama and covering seven generations of the Howland family that lived in the same house and built a community around themselves.

In 1971 Shirley McNaughton started a pioneer program at the Ontario Crippled Children ’ s Centre ( OCCC ), aimed to children with cerebral palsy, from the approach of augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ).

The leading figures of the second generation of historical dance research include Shirley Wynne and her Baroque Dance Ensemble which was founded at Ohio State University in the early 1970s and Wendy Hilton ( 1931 – 2002 ), a student of Belinda Quirey who supplemented the work of Melusine Wood with her own research into original sources.

* The Cardinal ( play ), a Caroline era tragedy by James Shirley

* Shirley Chisholm ( 1946 ), first African-American U. S. Congresswoman, 1968 – 1982.

Several key events occurred, which raised public awareness of the New Age subculture: the production of the musical Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ( 1967 ) with its opening song " Aquarius " and its memorable line " This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius "; publication of Linda Goodman's best-selling astrology books Sun Signs ( 1968 ) and Love Signs ( 1978 ); the release of Shirley MacLaine's book Out on a Limb ( 1983 ), later adapted into a television mini-series with the same name ( 1987 ); and the " Harmonic Convergence " planetary alignment on August 16 and 17, 1987, organized by José Argüelles at Sedona in the U. S. state of Arizona.

Shirley Ann Dean ( Bryant ), considered moderate in Berkeley politics, is an American politician who served as the Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1994 to 2002.

Turner has been married and divorced three times: to Judy Nye ( 1960 – 64 ), Jane Shirley Smith ( 1965 – 88 ), and actress Jane Fonda ( 1991 – 2001 ).

While the Massachusetts provincial governor William Shirley was given the task of fortifying Fort Oswego and attacking Fort Niagara, Sir William Johnson was to capture Fort St. Frédéric ( at present-day Crown Point, New York ), and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Monckton was to capture Fort Beauséjour on the frontier between Nova Scotia and Acadia.

* The Liquidator ( 1965 ), MGM's answer to Bond with Rod Taylor and Goldfinger-style theme sung by Shirley Bassey.

The hotel has been a home to actors and film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Jonas Mekas ( was long-time resident from 1967 to 1974 ), Shirley Clarke, Mitch Hedberg, Dave Hill, Miloš Forman, Lillie Langtry, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Gallo, Patricia Chica, Eddie Izzard, Uma Thurman, Elliott Gould, Elaine Stritch, Michael Imperioli, Jane Fonda, Gaby Hoffmann and her mother, the Warhol film star Viva, and Edie Sedgwick.

The cable connected between Long Island ( at Shirley, New York ), USA ; Green Hill, Rhode Island, USA ; Porthcurno, UK ; Bude, UK ; and Penmarch, France.

In 1790, Shaker enclaves were organized at Hancock, Massachusetts, and Enfield, Connecticut ; in 1792, Canterbury, New Hampshire and Tyringham, Massachusetts followed suit ; 1793, Alfred, Maine, Enfield, New Hampshire, Harvard and Shirley, Massachusetts ; 1794, New Gloucester ( Sabbathday Lake ), Maine.

The chain was named after Arthur Treacher ( 1894 – 1975 ), an English character actor who was known as " the perfect butler " for his performances as Jeeves, as a butler in several Shirley Temple films, and the role of Constable Jones in Disney's Mary Poppins.

* Shirley Caesar ( born 1938 ), American singer

The most significant incident was the capture of the French Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island ( Île Royale ) by an expedition ( 29 April – 16 June 1745 ) of colonial militia organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, commanded by William Pepperrell of Maine ( then part of Massachusetts ), and assisted by a Royal Navy fleet.

Collins was born in Paddington, London, the daughter of Elsa Collins ( née Bessant ), a dance teacher and nightclub hostess, and Joseph William Collins ( died 1988 ), an agent whose clients would later include Shirley Bassey, the Beatles and Tom Jones.

* Hyde Park ( play ), by James Shirley

Between 1929 and 1939, he directed films in almost every other genre, including Wee Willie Winkie ( 1937 ), starring Shirley Temple.

* Shirley ( name ), either a given name or a surname

* Shirley ( album ), a 1961 album by Shirley Bassey