An edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)

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An edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1847)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Librarian note: Alternate cover editions for this ISBN are: "Woman in white dress" (with the title on white and black background), "Woman at the easel" on a black and blue background, and "Furniture, easel and window".

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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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
2020, Standard Ebooks
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The tenant of Wildfell Hall
2015, [publisher not identified]
in English
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2015, CreateSpace Independent Publishing
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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
in English - Modern Library ed.
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The tenant of Wildfell Hall
1996, Wordsworth Editions
in English - [Complete and unabridged]
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
1982, AMS Press
in English
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The tenant of Wildfell hall
1907, J. Grant
in English - Thornton ed.
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THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL
1900, Harper & Brothers Publishers
in English
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The tenant of Wildfell Hall
1892, Smith, Elder
in English - A new ed.
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Open Library
OL20592210M
Internet Archive
tenantwildfellh00brongoog
OCLC/WorldCat
71124286

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You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.
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