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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel written by Anne Brontë (under the pseudonym Acton Bell). Released in 1848, it tells of a painter visiting the titular Hall. Due to its (at the time) extremely feminist leanings, Wildfell Hall became an extremely controversial (and popular) novel.
Characters[]
- Helen "Graham" - a painter and the main character of the novel
- Gilbert Markham - Helen's neighbour
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Publisher's summary[]
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.
Steve Davies' introduction to this new edition discusses The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as a powerful feminist testament, written with bold and tragic irony. Passionate, truth-telling, rich in biblical echoes of dispossession and longing. Anne Brontë's masterpiece is recognizably the distinctive sister-novel of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
See also[]
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
Sources[]
- Wikipedia