The tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Brontë ; edited by Herbert Rosengarten, with an introduction by Margaret Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849.

Contributor:

Rosengarten, Herbert.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcoholism.

Married women.

Landlord and tenant.

England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.

England.

Manners and customs.

Landlord and tenant--England--Fiction.

Married women--England--Fiction.

Alcoholism--England--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Love stories.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 486 pages ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Anne Bronte's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The heroine, Helen Huntingdon, after a short period of initial happiness, leaves her dissolute husband, and must earn her own living to rescue her son from his influence. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is compelling in its imaginative power, the realism and range of its dialogue, and its psychological insight into the characters involved in a marital battle.

Notes:

Includes facsim. of original t.p.: The tenant of Wildfell Hall / by Acton Bell. London : T.C. Newby, 1848.

"Uses the Clarendon text, based on the first edition of July 1848, and incorporating authorial corrections from the second edition"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxx-xxxi).

ISBN:

0192834622

9780192834621

OCLC:

40726291