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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Including Introductory Essays by Charlotte Brontë, Virginia Woolf, and Clement K. Shorter
Paperback
RomanceClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781528703826
Publisher: Read & Co. Classics
Published: Mar 29 2018
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë, is a bold and unflinching novel of moral courage, female independence, and social hypocrisy in Victorian England.
When the mysterious Helen Graham arrives at the decaying Wildfell Hall with her young son, she becomes the subject of intense gossip and suspicion. As her guarded reserve slowly gives way, her story unfolds to reveal a harrowing marriage marked by cruelty, alcoholism, and betrayal. This is the story of a woman's daring decision to defy social convention to protect herself and her child.
Structured through layered narration and diary entries, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall confronts issues rarely addressed so directly in nineteenth-century fiction, including marital abuse, women's legal powerlessness, and the corrosive effects of unchecked male privilege. At its heart lies a powerful assertion of personal integrity and the right to self-determination.
Radical, emotionally resonant, and strikingly modern, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is now recognised as one of the most progressive novels of its era and a landmark work in the history of feminist literature.
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