Bibliograph

The tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davies

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Label

The tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davies

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [497]-542)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The tenant of Wildfell Hall

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

920736068

Responsibility statement

Anne Brontë ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stevie Davies

Series statement

Penguin classics

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

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