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"Marcella" explores class politics and land ownership and revolves around Marcella, a passionate young woman who embraces socialist ideals when her father inherits a country estate. She struggles with her newfound upper-class position and engages in a complex love triangle involving a conservative heir and a radical politician. Written in 1894, the novel takes a Victorian approach to the dissolution of established systems, questions the treatment of landowners, and emphasizes the need for fairness.