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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
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Anne Brontë
- Publisher
- Penguin Group
- Released
- 1996
- Pages
- 535
- ISBN10
- 0140434747
- ISBN13
- 9780140434743
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Women, Classics, Friendship, Children, Death, England, Society, 19th century, Feminism, Secrets, Faith, English Literature, Adapted for Film, Marriage, Diaries, God, Emancipation, Alcoholism, Hell, Oppression, English Countryside
- First published
- 1848
- Original title
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- 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