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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

Psychology & SocietyEnglish
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A mysterious young woman, Mrs Helen Graham, said to be a widow, moves into the half-ruined old house of Wildfell Hall with her little son and earns her…

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Author
Anne Brontë
Category
Psychology & Society
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

A mysterious young woman, Mrs Helen Graham, said to be a widow, moves into the half-ruined old house of Wildfell Hall with her little son and earns her living as a painter, and the neighbourhood soon fills with gossip about her. The young farmer Gilbert Markham falls in love with her, and when the rumours become unbearable Helen gives him her diary, which reveals the truth about her past and her marriage to the charming, dissolute drunkard Arthur Huntingdon.

Context and significance

Published in 1848, Anne Brontë's second novel was a bestseller and shocked readers with its frank picture of addiction and of a woman who leaves her husband to protect her child, at a time when English law gave a wife no right to do so. Anne drew partly on her brother Branwell's decline, and the book is now seen as an early feminist novel. Compare Agnes Grey and Jane Eyre.

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