The Tenants of Wildfell Hall (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978309753)

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. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events connected with the meeting of his wife. A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert befriends Helen and discovers her past. In her diary, Helen depicts her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and her desperate attempts to save their son from his influence in the dissipated aristocratic society from which she ultimately flees. The depiction of marital strife and women's professional identification has also a strong moral message mitigated by authors's belief in universal salvation.

Author: Anne Bronte
ISBN-10: 1978309759
ISBN-13: 9781978309753
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/22/2017
Pages: 378
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.78d