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Anne Brontë's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The heroine, Helen Huntingdon, after a short period of initial happiness, leaves her dissolute husband, and must earn her own living to rescue her son from his influence. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is compelling in its imaginative power, the realism and range of its dialogue, and its psychological insight into the characters involved in a marital battle.
While I acknowledge the success of the present work to have been greater than I anticipated, and the praises it has elicited from a few kind critics to have been greater than it deserved, I must also admit that from some other quarters it has been censured with an asperity which I was as little prepared to expect, and which my judgment, as well as my feelings, assures me is more bitter than just.
It is scarcely the province of an author to refute the arguments of his censors and vindicate his own productions; but I may be allowed to make here a few observations with which I would have prefaced the first edition, had I foreseen the necessity of such precautions against the misapprehensions of those who would read it with a prejudiced mind or be content to judge it by a hasty glance.
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Fiction, Married women, Landlord and tenant, Alcoholics, Social life and customs, Alcoholism, Domestic fiction, Literature, Separated women, FICTION / General, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Married people, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, family life, Fiction, general, Fiction, family life, general, Large type books, Readers, Manners and customs, Women authors, Biography, General, Romans, nouvelles, Femmes mariées, Alcooliques, English literaturePeople
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2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing
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The tenant of Wildfell Hall
2013, W F Howes Ltd
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Tenant of Wildfell Hall
2012, Emereo Publishing Pty Limited
in English
- The original classic edition.
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The tenant of Wildfell Hall
1997, Modern Library
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The tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996, Wordsworth Editions
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- [Complete and unabridged]
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