Wildside Classic: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, Fiction, Classics (Hardcover)

from ctpress

Helen Graham rents the small cottage Wildfell Hall and move in there with her little son and the faithful maid-servant.. People in the small village are curious. Who is she? What is her background. She's evidently a widow - but not very eager to share about her life. And of course all kinds of ru...

from nx74defiant

Charlotte had this pulled from publication after Anne's death. There is speculation it is because the portrayal of the alcoholism and debauchery of the husband hit too close to home; that it shared with people the truth about their brother. Reading it now it seems strange that when this came out ...

from Luli81

Great surprise! Anne Brönte puts herself up to Charlotte's standards with this magnificent novel. It has everything a romantic classic ought to have and it's presented in a mysterious style in which you don't know what is going to happen until the final page. Highly recommended.

from readingwithtea

TToWH has an unusual and intriguing structure - the outer layer is written as a string of letters from a man to his brother-in-law (daring, perhaps, on Anne Brontë's part, to assume the voice of a man?). Approximately halfway through, he quotes a diary written by the female protagonist over a num...

from glade1

So much of this story paralleled my experience of marriage that it is hard to believe the author never was married or that it was written in a different age. Of course, the social customs are different in this story, but the human experience doesn't seem to change throughout the generations. Hele...