The tenant of Wildfell Hall
By: Anne Brontë
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Published: 2015
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Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781515195290
Subjects: Fiction; Landlord and tenant; Married women; Alcoholics
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.
Notes: Originally published in 1848.