- ^ "...she had no Christian name but Shirley; her parents, who had wished to have a son, finding that, after eight years of marriage, Providence had granted them only a daughter, bestowed on her the same masculine family cognomen they would have bestowed on a boy, if with a boy they had been blessed..." Shirley , Chapter XI
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- ^ Brontë, Charlotte (2008). Margaret Smith; Herbert Rosengarten; Janet Gezari (eds.). Shirley. England: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954080-8.
- ^ Mrs Pryor mentions that her name was "Miss Grey". In Chapter XXIV her first name is revealed. Shirley, Chapter XXI.
- ^ Brontë, Charlotte (2006). Jessica Cox, Lucasta Miller (ed.). Shirley. England: Penguin Classics. ISBN 978-0-14-143986-0.
- ^ "Shirley". 15 Minute Drama. BBC. Retrieved 23 March 2014.
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