This novel depicts a mill owner, Robert, whose business is struggling and in turn rejects his attraction to an orphaned woman, Caroline, in favor of proposing to a rich landowner, Shirley. In Charlotte Brontë’s classic, Shirley rejects him as she loves Robert’s poor brother, Louis, but has too much pride to admit her feelings. Caroline withers away due to the rejection by Robert until discovering Shirley’s governess is her long lost mother which rekin.
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