Description: Anne Brontë's 1848 diary-novel is about a woman trying to free herself from a drunken husband and assert her independence in a male-dominated world. Anne Brontë is not as well known as her sisters Charlotte and Emily, but her attempts to...
Synopsis Anne Brontë's 1848 diary-novel is about a woman trying to free herself from a drunken husband and assert her independence in a male-dominated world. Anne Brontë is not as well known as her sisters Charlotte and Emily, but her attempts to grapple with real problems of real women were ahead of their time, and make her work both readable and timely.
Details
Publication Date:
1996-06-01
Series:
Penguin Classics Series
Editor:
Stevie Davies
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Length:
535 pages
Height:
7.8 in
Width:
5.3 in
Thickness:
1.0 in
Weight:
12.0 oz
Publisher's Note The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when the law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property.