One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bront-r>
''She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it''
In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a ''wicked woman'' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty and debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Bront-rote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society and her belief in universal redemption, but scandalized readers of the time.
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