Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (dramatic reading)

By Brontë, Anne

Book Id: WPLBN0002950820
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File Size: 459.28 MB
Reproduction Date: 2012

Title:	Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (dramatic reading)
Author:	Brontë, Anne
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Dramatic Works, Play
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (dramatic reading)
Historic Publication Date:	1848
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Brontë, B. A. (1848). Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The (dramatic reading). Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law.

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
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