The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It potrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious 'tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son form his father's influence, and earns her own living as an artist. Whilst hiding at Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbert Markham, who falls in love with her.
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