The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall

Name: The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
Rating: 4.476190567016602 (21 reviews)

Anne Bronte

Dec 2012 · Harper Collins

4.5

21 reviews

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The most controversial of the Bronte sisters’ novels, Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the story of Helen Graham, a woman who, unique for her time, acts in her own best interest to rise above her personal circumstances to secure a better life for her son. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and gripping story of oppression, bravery, and love.

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4.5

21 reviews

Julia S

January 19, 2019

Great novel, awful edition! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is not your average love story. Of course it's a story of a young woman with a child who runs away from her husband and finds true love when she least expects it. However, the major theme of the novel is a failed marriage. Anne Bronte bravely explores the forbidden (at that time) ground of married life and makes a strikingly modern novel. Despite being written in a different style from her sisters, The Tenant of WIldfell Hall deserves to be as well known and widely read as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. This edition, with damning introduction from an anti-feminist writer, is also incomplete: the opening letter to Jack Halford, chapter headings and many paragraphs are omitted here. I strongly advice to seek another edition. The free one on this cite is complete.

5 people found this review helpful

Joanne Collier

April 23, 2015

Very interesting couldnt put it down. 1 of the best books ive read. Related to a few parts of the book.

2 people found this review helpful

Margaret Potter

January 30, 2013

Very hard to put down excellent book well written

About the author

English novelist and poet Anne Brontë was the youngest, and least recognized, member of the Brontë literary family. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters, Charlotte and Emily, before publishing two novels under the name Acton Bell. Brontë achieved modest success with her first novel, Agnes Grey, which was based on her time working as a governess, but her second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a triumph, selling out in just six weeks. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is also considered one of the first feminist novels, with depictions of alcoholism and immorality that were profoundly disturbing in the 19th century. Brontë died of tuberculosis in 1849 at the age of 29. Collectively, the Brontë sisters’ novels are considered literary standards that continue to influence modern writers.

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