The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of few nineteenth-century novels to address alcoholism, psychological abuse, violence and the inequality of women's property rights. In a powerful psychological narrative, Anne Bront??? tells the strange tale of the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Graham, the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall. When it was first published in 1848, Anne Bront???'s second novel was attacked by the Spectator for its 'morbid love of the coarse, if not the brutal'. In her defence, Anne stated that she ...
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of few nineteenth-century novels to address alcoholism, psychological abuse, violence and the inequality of women's property rights. In a powerful psychological narrative, Anne Bront??? tells the strange tale of the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Graham, the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall. When it was first published in 1848, Anne Bront???'s second novel was attacked by the Spectator for its 'morbid love of the coarse, if not the brutal'. In her defence, Anne stated that she 'wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it'. Anne's own sister Charlotte considered the novel 'an entire mistake', and after Anne's death in 1849 she suppressed any further editions, wishing to protect her reputation from accusations of immorality. Anne Bront??? challenges the reader, proving that she is a novelist in her own right and not just of interest as the youngest sister of the better known authors Charlotte and Emily. With an Afterword by Kathryn White.
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Add this copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to cart. $99.00, new condition, Sold by Barnes & Nable rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Jose, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2021 by Chiltern Publishing.
Add this copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to cart. $99.00, new condition, Sold by Barnes & Nable rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Jose, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Penguin Classics.
Add this copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to cart. $3,500.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1848 by Harper & Brothers.
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Very Good. First American Edition, first printing. In contemporary half leather binding over marbled boards. Very Good with rubbing to binding, darkening to spine. Offsetting to preliminary and terminal pages from binder's glue, pernicious foxing throughout. Shallow chipping to fore edge of page 177/178. The second and final novel by Anne Bronte, published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Anne was the youngest of the Bronte sisters; she died at the age of 29 one year after the publication of this book.
Add this copy of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to cart. $5,500.00, very good condition, Sold by Burnside Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1848 by Harper & Brothers.
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Very Good. First American Edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth decorated in blind with spine decorated in gilt. Very Good with cloth lightly soiled and worn at corners and spine ends. Inexpert bookplate removal to front paste down. Small stain to top corner of several early leaves and rear paste down. Pages are foxed, browned and with occasional creasing throughout. A lovely copy, rare in the original publisher's cloth. The second and final novel by the youngest of the Bronte sisters, published under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Anne died at the age of 29, a year after its publication. It was a commercial success compared to her first novel, Agnes Grey, that debuted in "the year of revolutions, " 1848. Recent critics have appreciated the novel's autobiographical realism and overtly-political feminism--specifically its defense of single motherhood and dramatization of a woman trapped in an abusive marriage with no legal way to secure a divorce. It is widely understood to be a critique of the idealized Victorian woman in her sisters' much more popular Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.