Anne Brontë
Paperback | Pages: 576 pages Rating: 3.95 | 85306 Users | 4132 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| ISBN: | 0140434747 (ISBN13: 9780140434743) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Helen Graham, Gilbert Markham, Arthur Huntingdon, Eliza Millward, Frederick Lawrence, Milicent Hargrave, Esther Hargrave, Walter Hargrave, Arthur Huntingdon-Jr., Rachel (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) |
| Setting: | Yorkshire, England,1827(United Kingdom) London, England |
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Note: Editions of The Tenant that start with: "You must go back with me..." are incomplete. Actual opening line of the novel is: "To J. Halford, Esq. Dear Halford, when we were together last..."This is the story of a woman's struggle for independence. Helen "Graham" has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Exiled to the desolate moorland mansion, she adopts an assumed name and earns her living as a painter.
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| Title | : | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall |
| Author | : | Anne Brontë |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Penguin Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 576 pages |
| Published | : | April 16th 1996 by Penguin Books (first published 1848) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Romance. Literature. 19th Century |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 85306 Users | 4132 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Funny how things change. I used to love this book. I pretty much can't stand it now. 3 stars (it was 5 before today) is just an obligatory i-appreciate-but-not-really-care-for-it rating. Anne Brontë and I would have never been friends, because it's hard to be a friend with someone so damn righteous and unbendable. Sure, Helen Graham and Agnes Grey are fictional characters, but is there a doubt they are reflections of the author? Not in my mind.Granted, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a hugeA little long, but amazing.
4.5 starsIve been meaning to read this for years and have finally got round to it. The plot is pretty straightforward. Gilbert Markham is a gentleman farmer and the story is set as a series of letters to his friend. A mysterious woman (Helen Graham, an assumed name) and her young son move into Wildfell Hall, a local and somewhat rundown property. She is rather reclusive and begins to be the subject of local gossip. Over time she mixes with some of her neighbour and Gilbert falls in love with
All the stars for this book! For me, it is on a par with Jane Eyre and better than Wuthering Heights. What a talented bunch of writers these sisters were! I can imagine jaws dropping all over victorian England at the publication of this book; a woman standing up to her abusive husband and slamming the bedroom door firmly shut in his face! What a spirited woman Anne was and she obviously wrote with some knowledge of the damage alcohol does to a person, as it is well known her brother was
Carol said I must list my all time favorite books. What a challenge this is! I have read everything those Bronte girls wrote, even their childhood poetry and I love all of it. But Anne will take the showing on my list for her bravery. Of course Charlotte was the most prolific and Emily the true brainiac, but Anne has my complete respect for being a true literary pioneer: she was the first woman to write of a wife leaving her abusive husband - and then goes on to lead a happy, successful life! Up
Anne Bronte's second novel is often overshadowed by her sisters' more famous novels, Charlotte's Jane Eyre (and three others) and Emily's Wuthering Heights, but it is equally worth reading. It tells the story of Helen Huntingdon, a mysterious woman who comes to live at Wildfell Hall with her child and one servant, and Gilbert Markham, the young man who is powerfully drawn to her and eventually learns her secret: that she left her dissolute, drunken husband in order to shield their son from his
What a surprisingly good read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was.I think when you read a Classic like this you have to immerse yourself in the time when it was written and this one goes back to the mid 1840s, a time when the pace of life was slower, and when there was no Television or social media and a time when snail mail and word of mouth were the facebook and twitter of the time. I think if you have the ability to do this you would love and enjoy this novel as I am sure this was a rocking good
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