Though the middle-third of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was quite a slog, I thoroughly enjoyed the recounting of the love affair of Gilbert Markham and his mysterious neighbor at Wildfell Hall. A line of poetry from Anne Bronte: 'Believe not those who say/the upward path is smooth/Lest though should ...
I love this novel. It's filled with strong characters as well as presenting social commentary of the plight of women's rights without being overly maudlin
You could tell this was a Bronte Sister book. Depressing as all hell, but left me unable to look away. Anne is def. not my favorite Bronte Sister..I don't think the caliber of her writing is quite up to that of her sisters, in particular, Charlotte.
I adored 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. To me, it combined the best bits of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' and smashed them together in a wonderful story of intrigue, at the heart of which Helen Lawrence.Helen is a fascinating character, who attracts the attention of Gabriel Markham who serves ...
This novel is told in a dual narrative structure – starting first with letters from Gilbert Markham. In these letters addressed to a close friend he describes the arrival of a mysterious young widow and his eventual infatuation with her. At first everyone in the small village is curious about Helen...
The tale of one foolish young man's growing love for the eponymous tenant, a widow with a child and a very solemn disposition. The main character is a foolish prig and his beloved is little better; if we could average out their bloodless piety with Wuthering Heights's overwrought passions, perhaps w...
This is a very different novel from the other of Anne Bronte's that I've read, Agnes Grey. The story is told mostly from the first person viewpoint of Gilbert Markham as he and his fellow villagers meet the mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall, the widowed Mrs. Graham, who has a bit of a mystery a...
I read it awhile back, during the summer, so I only have a scant memory of it. I never wrote a review, which was a mistake, but it was so long ago, I wasn't into writing them yet. I do remember enjoying it since the prose, itself, makes it worth the read. Like her sisters, she paints pictures with h...
[These notes were made in 1984; I read this in the 1966 Folio Society edition:]. Since Anne is by far the least esteemed of the Brontës, I came to this with low expectations - rather too low. For she has the same vivid personal voice, and the same ability to handle inlaid narratives as both her sis...
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