The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Brontė, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784870757 ISBN 13: 9781784870751

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2016

Synopsis

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

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Anne Brontė’s second and last novel was widely and contentiously reviewed upon its 1848 publication, in part because its subject matter domestic violence, alcoholism, women’s rights, and universal salvation was so controversial. The tale unfolds through a series of letters between two friends as one man learns more about Helen Huntingdon and the past that brought this young painter and single mother to Wildfell Hall. Powerfully plotted and unconventionally structured, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is now considered to be a classic of Victorian literature.

This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that situates the novel in significant Victorian debates, and provides appendices that make clear Brontė’s intellectual inheritance from important eighteenth-century writers such as Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft. Material on temperance, education, childrearing, and nineteenth-century women artists is also included in the appendices.

About the Author:

Anne Brontė (1820-1849) is the author of Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784870757
• ISBN 13: 9781784870751
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416