Charlotte Brontë and Shelley

Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was an English female writer who wrote Shelley two years after she completed Jane Eyre.

The novel is set in the early nineteenth century when the British textile workers spontaneously destroyed the machine movement, because the factory owners in order to increase production, compete for the market, the use of new machines, the result is that thousands of workers are unemployed, forced to rise up and fight. At the same time, the writer also portrayed a new bourgeois figure, the factory owner Moore, and Shelley, a new woman who despised tradition. Through the meticulous description of the numerous characters centered on Shelley, the author sketches a picture of social life in England at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

The book "Shelley" was translated according to the 1950 edition of Oxford University Press in London, translated by Mr. Cao Yong, a famous older generation in China, published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House, the first edition in April 1981, the first printing in April 1981, with a print run of 120,000 copies and a price of 2.15 yuan.

Cao Yong contemporary translator, formerly known as Hu Hanliang, a native of Shantou, Guangdong. His descendant, Hu Nanyu, was also a translator.