With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant Canterbury Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful & sometimes violent novel of expectation love oppression sin religion & betrayal It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon the mysterious tenant' of the title & her dissolute alcoholic husband Defying convention Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence & earns her own living as an artist Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall she encounters Gilbert Markham who falls in love with her On its first publication in 1848 Anne Bronte's second novel was criticised for being coarse' & brutal' The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands Anne Bronte's style is bold naturalistic & passionate & this novel which her sister Charlotte considered an entire mistake' has earned Anne a position in English literature in her own right not just as the youngest member of the Bronte family This newly reset text is taken from a copy of the 1848 second edition in the Library of the Bronte Parsonage Museum & has been edited to correct known errors in that edition ...

A beautiful edition of Anne Bronte's most enduring novel to accompany her sisters' greatest books in Penguin Clothbound Classics Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham a beautiful & secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son He is quick to offer Helen his friendship but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip & speculation Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed & the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge Told with great immediacy combined with wit & irony The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence & creative freedom The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has been designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith & is edited with an introduction & notes by the novelist Stevie Davies ...

The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall her groundbreaking study of a woman's valiant struggle for independence from an abusive husband is edited with an introduction & notes by Stevie Davis Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham a beautiful & secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son He is quick to offer Helen his friendship but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip & speculation Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed & the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge Told with great immediacy combined with wit & irony The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence & creative freedom In her introduction Stevie Davies discusses The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as feminist testament inspired by Anne Bronte's experiences as a governess & by the death of her brother Branwell Bronte & examines the novel's language biblical references & narrative styles Anne Bronte (1820-1849) youngest of the Bronte sisters was born at Thornton West Yorkshire Her father was a curate & her mother died when she was a baby leaving five daughters & one son After the death of her sisters Maria & Elizabeth from tuberculosis in 1825 the Bronte children were homeschooled & together they created fantasy worlds & kingdoms which they explored in writing Anne worked as a governess between 1840 & 1845 after which she published Agnes Grey (1847) & The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) under the pen-name Acton Bell Anne Bronte died in 1849 If you enjoyed The Tenant of Wildfell Hall you might also like Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence also available in Penguin Classics ...

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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When the mysterious & beautiful young widow Helen Graham becomes the new tenant at Wildfell Hall rumours immediately begin to swirl around her As her neighbour Gilbert Markham comes to discover Helen has painful secrets buried in her past that even his love for her cannot easily overcome ...

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David Tennant & Catherine Tate arrive at Big Finish for brand new adventures as The Doctor & Donna Noble! Donna Noble has never been lucky in love So when one day her Prince does come she is thrilled to have the wedding of all weddings to look forward to Though the Doctor isn't holding his breath for an invitation & her future mother-in-law is certainly not amused But on the big day itself Donna finds her castle under siege from the darkest of forces marching at the head of a skeleton army When it looks like even the Doctor can't save the day what will Queen Donna do to save her people from Death itself? This is the third of three Doctor Who stories released from Big Finish featuring David Tennant & Catherine Tate As a young actor David Tennant played a number of roles in Big Finish Doctor Who stories unaware that one day he'd be playing the Doctor on TV as it became the UK's Number 1 show! Catherine Tate is one of Britain's leading lights on stage & screen happily reuniting with David Tennant after enjoying a popular TV run as companion Donna Noble Guest star Alice Krige is best known to Star Trek fans as the Borg Queen from both TV & film versions of the hit Sci-Fi franchise CAST David Tennant (The Doctor) Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) Blake Ritson (Rudolph) Alice Krige (Queen Mum) Beth Chalmers (Hortense) Alan Cox (Death) ...

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