num_pages: 574
description: Published in June 1848, less than a year before her death, Anne Brontë's second (and last) novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall , is the somber account of the breakdown of a marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led its publisher, the unscrupulous T.C. Newby, to issue a "Second Edition" less than two months later. The present edition, which completes the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontës , offers a text based on the collation of the first edition with the second. The introduction details the work's composition and early printing history, including its first publication in America; and the text is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in the first English and American editions, and discuss the author's belief in the doctrine of universal salvation.
language: English
title: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
titlecomplete: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Clarendon Edition of the Novels of the Brontës)
characters: Rose Markham, Helen Graham, Milicent Hargrave, Walter Hargrave, Rachel (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), Jane Wilson, Arthur Huntingdon, Fergus Markham, Eliza Millward, Michael Millward, Frederick Lawrence, Robert Wilson, Richard Wilson, Esther Hargrave, Arthur Huntingdon-Jr., Gilbert Markham
genres: Fiction, Gothic, British Literature, Classic Literature, Romance, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 111354
places: Yorkshire, England, London, England
publisher: Clarendon Press