The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Anne Brontë’s second and final novel
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.” The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. This epistolary novel presents the story of young Helen Graham’s catastrophic marriage to the dashing drunkard Arthur Huntingdon and her escape from him to the seclusion of Wildfell Hall. Told with great immediacy, combined with humour and irony, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful representation of a woman's struggle for domestic independence and creative freedom.
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