Tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Bronte.
By: Brontë, Anne
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BookSeries: Penguin popular classics.Publisher: London : Penguin, 1994Description: 384 p. ; 18 cm.ISBN: 0140620435.Subject(s): Landlord and tenant -- England -- Fiction | Married women -- England -- Fiction | Alcoholism -- England -- Fiction | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- FictionDDC classification: 823.8
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 823.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00019550 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Portrays the decline of an aristocratic husband whose drunken excesses and domestic violence force his loving wife into a reluctant rebellion.
First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence at a time when law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property.
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Library Journal Review
The stage has been set for a typical Gothic romance: A half-ruined mansion on a lonely moor offers sanctuary to a mysterious heroine fleeing a degenerate husband. Written in 1848, this novel by the youngest of the Bronte sisters is probably a better book than posterity has acknowledged. Its poignant, feminist overtones alone would appeal to today's readers. Although the writing is naturally dated, two experienced narrators have transformed the stilted prose into live-action drama. Alex Jennings is Gilbert Markham, the neighbor who falls in love with the married Helen Huntington, while Jenny Agutter reads with quiet charm from Helen's diary. In spite of what could be considered legitimate criticism of the book as being too sentimental or too preachy, libraries will still want to purchase it if only to be prepared for the PBS series this fall. Recommended.Jo Carr, Sarasota, Fla.(c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Anne Bronte was the daughter of an impoverished clergyman of Haworth in Yorkshire, England. Considered by many critics as the least talented of the Bronte sisters, Anne wrote two novels. Agnes Grey (1847) is the story of a governess, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), is a tale of the evils of drink and profligacy. Her acquaintance with the sin and wickedness shown in her novels was so astounding that Charlotte Bronte saw fit to explain in a preface that the source of her sister's knowledge of evil was their brother Branwell's dissolute ways. A habitue of drink and drugs, he finally became an addict.Anne Bronte's other notable work is her Complete Poems.
Anne Bronte died in 1849.
(Bowker Author Biography)