- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781409077206
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
'Frighteningly up-to-date tale of single motherhood and wife-battering' Independent
'A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal' Daily Mail
When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome.
'Courageous and controversial' The Times
**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
- Published: 1 September 2010
- ISBN: 9781409077206
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
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About the author
Anne Bronte was born at Thornton in Yorkshire on 17 January 1820, the youngest of six children. That April, the Brontës moved to Haworth, a village on the edge of the moors, where Anne’s father had become the curate. Anne’s mother died soon afterwards. She was four when her older sisters were sent to the Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught tuberculosis and died. After that, Anne, Charlotte, Emily and Branwell were taught at home for a few years, and together, they created vivid fantasy worlds which they explored in their writing. Anne went to Roe Head School 1835–7. She worked as a governess with the Ingham
family (1839–40) and with the Robinson family (1840–45). In 1846, along with Charlotte and Emily, she published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. She published Agnes Grey in 1847 and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. That year, both Anne’s brother Branwell and her sister Emily died of tuberculosis. A fortnight later, Anne was diagnosed with the same disease. She died in
Scarborough on 28 May 1849.
Anne Bronte, who was born in 1820, was brought up in the Yorkshire village of Haworth where her father was curate. She was educated at home and, as a child, she invented with her sister Emily the imaginary world of Gondal, for which she wrote copious chronicles and poems.
She held two positions as governess, with the Inghams at Blake Hall and, from 1840-45, with the Robinson family at Thorp Green. As a religious lyric poet, Anne Brontë's hymns and lyrics rank with those of Cowper. Her first novel Agnes Grey (1847), published under the pseudonym Acton Bell, is in the tradition of fictional spiritual autobiography, written with conciseness, integrity and irony. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) is a powerful feminist testament, attacking the marriage laws, double standards of sexual morality and the education of men and women.
Anne Bronte died at Scarborough in 1849. She was the youngest of the Brontë sisters, whose extraordinary gifts are only now receiving just appraisal.
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Praise for The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The title of "the first feminist novel" has been awarded to other books, perhaps with less justice... a cracking page-turner
Guardian
Courageous and controversial
The Times
A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal
Daily Mail
Courageous and controversial
The Times
A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal
Daily Mail
The title of "the first feminist novel" has been awarded to other books, perhaps with less justice... a cracking page-turner
Guardian
 
         
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                                                                 
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
                                            
                                     
                                            
                                     
                                            
                                     
                                            
                          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