The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a well-paced, fascinating read. It is a framed novel, told through letter correspondence between the main character, Gilbert, and his unseen friend. Gilbert starts the novel by writing to his friend about the new tenant living in town, a single woman with a child who w...
I thought this was going to be about society in general but it focused on a specific group of people. The author also portrays the Victorians as highly sexually repressed which wasn't really true.
Maybe a fun addition to the Victorian segment. From ,this Salon interview, some stuff I didn't know: "Something like 50 percent of the pornography of the time was flagellation pornography. There are lots of different theories about that. One is that these gentlemen who went to private schools like ...
While I really loved how Bronte championed gender equality, and showed how the whole "my love can change him into the good person he is inside his abusive, bad boy exterior" is bullshit, the novel was a bit too didactic in regards to Christian piety and behavior. 3.5 stars.
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