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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen... Read Full Overview

A powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence and creative freedom, from the youngest of the Bront sisters

With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration... Read Full Overview

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"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" a novel by English author Anne Bront?. Her second and last novel, it is presented in the form of a series of letters from one Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about how he met his wife. An enigmatic young widow arrives at the uninhabited... Read Full Overview

A beautiful clothbound edition of Anne Bront 's most enduring novel, to accompany her sisters' greatest books in Penguin Hardcover Classics

'A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal' Daily Mail

Combining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdown, a disquisition on the care and upbringing of children, and a hard-hitting critique of the position of women in Victorian society, this passionate tale of betrayal... Read Full Overview

This novel narrates the arrival of a widow and her son to an old mansion, a fact that unleashes all kinds of reactions among the neighborhood. Breaking free of a quarrelsome, alcoholic husband, Helen now faces an oppressive society, but manages to pull through. The protagonist's... Read Full Overview

The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne BronteThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Bront. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Bronts' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal... Read Full Overview

Combining a sensational story of a man's physical and moral decline through alcohol, a study of marital breakdown, a disquisition on the care and upbringing of children, and a hard-hitting critique of the position of women in Victorian society, this passionate tale of betrayal... Read Full Overview

Originally published in 1848, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is the second and final novel written by Anne Bronte. Considered one of the first feminist novels, it was both instantly successful and highly controversial. The story follows the relationship between Gilbert Markham,... Read Full Overview

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author Anne Bront?. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Bront?s' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her... Read Full Overview

This novel consists of three parts. The plot takes place in Victorian England. Everything begins from a young farmer Gilbert Markham, who tells the readers about a mysterious stranger. Her name is Helen Huntington. One day she appears in an old mansion and causes interest and... Read Full Overview

When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall, rumors immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbor Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot... Read Full Overview

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenged the prevailing morals of the Victorian era. Especially shocking, at the time, was Helen's slamming of her bedroom door in the face of her husband, thereby overturning the sexual politics. It is considered to be one of the first feminist... Read Full Overview