Shirley By Charlotte Brontë Special edition Butterflies

Butterflies

and a large house she's sure is haunted

she’s treading water in a dead-end job

she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god

the stories of countless influential women – leaders

Shirley By Charlotte Brontë Special edition ButterfliesShirley by Charlotte Bronte. With an Introduction and Notes by Sally Minogue The Shirley of the title is a woman of independent means; her friend Caroline is not. Both struggle with what a woman's role is and can be. Their male counterparts Louis, the powerless tutor, and Robert, his cloth manufacturing brother also stand at odds to society's expectations. The novel is set in a period of social and political ferment, featuring class