The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte' She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it' In this sensational hard-hitting & passionate tale of marital cruelty The Tenant of Wildfell Hall sees a mysterious tenant Helen Graham unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully desperate to protect her son Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty & debauchery from which Helen flees Anne Bronte wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society & her belief in universal redemption but scandalized readers of the time The Penguin English Library
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