Book · 1848 · Fiction

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Name: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Author: Anne Bronte

Wordsworth Editions · 576 pages

★ 6.6 editorial score

Helen Graham bolts her bedroom door against a drunk husband, takes her son, and lives by selling paintings. Victorian reviewers called it coarse and unfit to put in a girl's hands.

Genre

Epistolary novel Social criticism Victorian literature

Medium

Novel

Subject

Love Oppression of women Gender relations Marriage

Setting

England (United Kingdom)

Time

1848Depicts Victorian Era (Britain)Depicts 19th century

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Quote · 1869

“So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.”

John Stuart Mill

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