Tenant of Wildfell Hall (eBook)
464 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-82586-1 (ISBN)
A mysterious young widow calling herself Helen Graham arrives at Wildfell Hall and immediately arouses her new neighbors' suspicions with her unconventional opinions and the attention she draws from the local bachelors. One of her admirers, a farmer named Gilbert Markham, readily offers his friendship but has second thoughts about Helen's reclusive conduct and the gossip it excites. When Helen allows Gilbert to read her diary, he discovers the reason behind her secretive behavior — a disastrous marriage to a ne'er-do-well, whom she ultimately flees in defiance of the legal lack of rights for wives. An instant bestseller upon publication under the pseudonym Acton Bell, Anne Brontë's book was later suppressed by her eldest surviving sister, Charlotte, because of its unorthodox content. Written with a realism that scandalized critics in its portrayal of adultery, alcoholism, and marital discord, this compelling tale has been hailed as one of the first major works of feminist literature.
Anne Brontë (1820–49), the youngest of the famous sisters, drew upon her experiences as a governess to write her first novel, Agnes Grey. Her second, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was partly inspired by her dissolute brother, and she died from tuberculosis a year after its publication. Despite its popularity, Charlotte Brontë suppressed the book's republication, leaving it to be rediscovered as an early feminist classic.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.9.2017 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Dover Thrift Editions | Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 130 mm |
| Gewicht | 141 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker | |
| Schlagworte | 18th century • 19th century • abusive marriage • Acton Bell • Acton Bell Wildfell • adultery • Agnes Gray • Agnes Grey • alcoholism • Anna Bronte • Ann Bronte • Anne Bronte • Appendix • attractive woman • Â Wildfell Hall anne bronte • bachelor suitors • Bronte BBC • Bronte sister least well known • bronte sisters • Bronte Wildfell • christianity in english fiction • Classic • compelling tale • disastrous marriage • Divorce • Elizabeth Gaskell • English classics • English literature in 1800s • Epistolary • Farmer • Feminism • Fiction • forgotten classics • Gossip • Gothic Romance • humiliation • instant bestseller • Jane Eyre • Jealousy • marital discord • marriage • marriage problems • mysterious neighbor • mysterious widow • neglected classics • Open Diary • overlooked classics • portrayal of adultery • Pseudonym • pseudonym acton bell • public scorn • rediscovered classics • Romance • Romantic drama • secretive behavior • series of letters • suspicious woman • tenant Anne Bronte • Tenant Bronte • tenant of Wildfell • Thomas Hardy • unconventional opinion • unorthodox content • Victorian • victorian debates • Villette • wildfell hall • Wildfell Hall Anne • Wildfell Hall anne bronte • wildfell hall bronte • women's rights • Womens Rights • Wuthering Heights • young English authors |
| ISBN-10 | 0-486-82586-8 / 0486825868 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-486-82586-1 / 9780486825861 |
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