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The tenant of Wildfell Hall / by Anne Brontë.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection PR4162 .T4 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Landlord and tenant--England--Fiction.
- Landlord and tenant.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Married women--England--Fiction.
- Married women.
- Alcoholism--England--Fiction.
- Alcoholism.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- England.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Diaries.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Natal Publishing, LLC, [2024]
- Summary:
- 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.
- "When a mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, with her young son and a servant, rumours abound. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and soon becomes a social outcast. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham befriends Helen and discovers her past. What follows is a journey of truth, love, and reconciliation. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was an instant and phenomenal success. The depiction of marital strife and women's professional identification has a strong moral message mitigated by the author's belief in universal salvation. Most critics now consider The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to be one of the first feminist novels. In leaving her husband and taking away their child, Helen violates not only social conventions but also the early 19th century English law."-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9798348116330
- OCLC:
- 1513127405
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