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Following the tremendous popular success of Jane Eyre, which earned her lifelong notoriety as a moral revolutionary, Charlotte Bront  vowed to write a sweeping social chronicle that focused on "something real and unromantic as Monday morning." Set in the industrializing England of the Napoleonic wars and Luddite revolts of 1811-12, Shirley (1849) is the story of two contrasting heroines. One is the shy Caroline Helstone, who is trapped in the oppressive atmosphere of a Yorkshire rectory and whose bare life symbolizes the plight of single women in the nineteenth century. The other is the vivacious Shirley Keeldar, who inherits a local estate and whose wealth liberates her from convention.

A work that combines social commentary with the more private preoccupations of Jane Eyre, Shirley demonstrates the full range of Bront s literary talent. "Shirley is a revolutionary novel," wrote Bront  biographer Lyndall Gordon. "Shirley follows Jane Eyre as a new exemplar but so much a forerunner of the feminist of the later twentieth century that it is hard to believe in her actual existence in 1811-12. She is a theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. Charlotte Bront  imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman [whose] extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself….Shirley [is]

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Charlotte Bront , author of Jane Eyre, a book that cemented her place in history as a moral revolutionary followed that success with a book she vowed would be "something real and unromantic as Monday morning."  With two characters living in an industrializing England Shirley contrasts the bare life a single woman with little means to that of a vivacious heir to a fortune that liberates her from the social confines normally placed on women in 19th Century England.

Bront s biographer Lyndall Gordon called Shirley a  forerunner of the feminist of the late 20th Century  and marveled that the character could even be conceived of in 1811.   She is the theoretic possibility: what a woman might be if she combined independence and means of her own with intellect. Charlotte Bront  imagined a new form of power, equal to that of men, in a confident young woman [whose] extraordinary freedom has accustomed her to think for herself.  At its core this novel is a work that examines what is truly more important in a person s life: Wealth or Love.

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