The tenant of Wildfell Hall

by

182 pages

English language

Published April 13, 2015 by [publisher not identified].

ISBN:
978-1-5151-9529-0
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OCLC Number:
1088439305

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4 stars (1 review)

The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when the law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property.

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reviewed The tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë (Penguin English library)

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4 stars

If you surveyed a bunch of random strangers, asking them to name the first Bronte Sisters novel that came into their heads, I'm betting that Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights would total to the vast majority of the answers. After reading this book I have to ask why Anne isn't getting an equal share of the love? Because I found this book to be hugely superior to Jane Eyre.

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Landlord and tenant
  • Married women
  • Alcoholics

Places

  • England