The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540746191)

A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law.

Author: Anne Bronte
ISBN-10: 1540746194
ISBN-13: 9781540746191
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2016
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.80d