- Chapter 1 – Levitical
- Chapter 2 – The Wagons
- Chapter 3 – Mr. Yorke
- Chapter 4 – Mr. Yorke (Continued)
- Chapter 5 – Hollow’s Cottage
- Chapter 6 – Coriolanus
- Chapter 7 – The Curates at Tea
- Chapter 8 – Noah and Moses
- Chapter 9 – Briarmains
- Chapter 10 – Old Maids
- Chapter 11 – Fieldhead
- Chapter 12 – Shirley and Caroline
- Chapter 13 – Further Communications on Business
- Chapter 14 – Shirley Seeks to Be Saved by Works
- Chapter 15 – Mr. Donne’s Exodus
- Chapter 16 – Whitsuntide
- Chapter 17 – The School-Feast
- Chapter 18 – Which the Genteel Reader is Recommended to Skip, Low Persons Being Here Introduced
- Chapter 19 – A Summer Night
- Chapter 20 – To-Morrow
- Chapter 21 – Mrs. Pryor
- Chapter 22 – Two Lives
- Chapter 23 – An Evening Out
- Chapter 24 – The Valley of the Shadow of Death
- Chapter 25 – The West Wind Blows
- Chapter 26 – Old Copy-Books
- Chapter 27 – The First Blue-Stocking
- Chapter 28 – Phoebe
- Chapter 29 – Louis Moore
- Chapter 30 – Rushedge, a Confessional
- Chapter 31 – Uncle and Niece
- Chapter 32 – The Schoolboy and the Wood-Nymph
- Chapter 33 – Martin’s Tactics
- Chapter 34 – Case of Domestic Persecution — Remarkable Instance of Pious Perseverance in the Discharge of Religious Duties
- Chapter 35 – Wherein Matters Make Some Progress, But Not Much
- Chapter 36 – Written in the Schoolroom
- Chapter 37 – The Winding-Up