If you surveyed a bunch of random strangers, asking them to name the first Bronte Sisters novel that came into their heads, I'm betting that Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights would total to the vast majority of the answers. After reading this book I have to ask why Anne isn't getting an equal share of...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a very brave, straight to the point social commentary on the prevailing ethics of the Victorian era. Anne Brontë deals with abuse, alcoholism, domestic violence, sexual ethics and infidelity, gambling, the social and marital status of women and inequalities of access t...
I would never have read this book, had I not tripped across a piece in the Guardian comparing the three Brontë sister's differing views of men. As I understood it, the two older, more famous sisters liked drunken assholes, while the younger, more demure sister, Anne, didn't hesitate to call a spade ...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall had been lurking in the shadows of my TBR shelf for a long time. Far too long. It was lying in waiting. And when its chance came, it pounced on me and has not let me go. Seriously, what a ride! The first thing that struck me was the structure of the novel: it starts o...
Many contemporaries of the Brontë sisters believed the three sisters, writing under under male pseudonyms, were actually one man—an impressive feat considering Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre were all published within a two-month period. Yet it's not all that surprising readers were thr...
Okay, now I've completed the Bronte set. I've read Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and now The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte... So, what did I think of it? Well, Anne Bronte is every bit as accomplished an author as her sisters. Masterful use of language and description. ...but it was a...
I know the main focus of this book was Helen's life before she moved into Wildfell Hall but I hadn't expected the whole of her diary to be within the pages of this book. I had expected more of Gilbert's reactions to what he read and a general overview of her life pre this book. the POV change was a ...
With an almost effortless ease Anne Brontë tells her story in the letters of a convincing male narrator, and suddenly switches to a diary form narrated by a strong female character. Her framework for this novel is utterly beautiful, and traps the reader in a tangled cobweb of reoccurring themes and ...
Inhalt: The novel is framed as a letter from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about the events leading to his meeting his wife. A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an ...
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...
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