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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

'A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal' Daily Mail

When the mysterious and beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her. As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover, Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome.

'Courageous and controversial' The Times

**One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Reviews

  • The title of "the first feminist novel" has been awarded to other books, perhaps with less justice... a cracking page-turner

    Guardian

  • Courageous and controversial

    The Times

  • A powerful novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal

    Daily Mail

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Anne Brontë

Anne Brontë was born in 1820, the youngest of the Brontë family. She was educated at home in the Yorkshire village of Howarth, and later held two positions as a governess, difficult experiences which inspired her first novel, Agnes Grey, in 1847. This was followed by The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. Anne died of tuberculosis in 1849, aged twenty-nine.

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