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The novel follows three women: Diane, a noblewoman; Catherine Simonidzé, a feminist; and the real Clara Zetkin, a communist. Through their destinies, the crisis of bourgeois society, women's emancipation, and the path to communism are depicted.
The novel Shirley (1849) is Charlotte Brontë's second social novel after Jane Eyre, depicting the industrial crisis caused by the Napoleonic Wars and the blockade of trade, where machines replace workers, causing discontent and violence.
In the first book of the novel, we meet Dorothea Brooke, a 19-year-old girl who wants a great life dedicated to good. She marries the old scholar Casaubon, thinking that he will help her in her intellectual work, but the marriage brings disappointment.