The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Paperback - 1996
by Anne Bronte; Stevie Davies (Editor); Introduction by Stevie Davies
Summary
"I no longer love my husband – I HATE him! The word stares at me in the face like a guilty confession"
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed and the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge. Told with great immediacy, combined with wit and irony, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman’s struggle for domestic independence and creative freedom.
In her introduction Steve Davies discusses The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as feminist testament, inspired by Anne Brontë’s experiences as a governess and by the death of her brother Branwell Brontë, and examines the novel’s language, biblical references and narrative styles.
From the rear cover
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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- Title The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Author Anne Bronte; Stevie Davies (Editor); Introduction by Stevie Davies
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 576
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-06-01
- ISBN 9780140434743 / 0140434747
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 1.2 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 3.05 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1190
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, England - Social life and customs - 19th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96164052
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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