The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Chiltern Classic)

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, tells the story of young Helen Graham’s disastrous marriage to the dashing drunkard Arthur Huntingdon―said to be modeled on the author’s brother Branwell―and her flight from him to the seclusion of Wildfell Hall. Pursued by Gilbert Markham, who is in love with her, Graham refuses him and, by way of explanation, gives him her journal. There he reads of her wretched married life. Eventually, after Huntingdon’s death, they marry. Anne Bronte's second but last novel,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym of Acton Bell, and was an immediate success. It is now considered to be the one of the first feminist novels.
About the Author
Anne Brontë was the daughter of Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England. Anne lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. Otherwise she attended a boarding school in Mirfield between 1836 and 1837, and between 1839 and 1845 lived elsewhere working as a governess. In 1846 she published a book of poems with her sisters and later two novels, initially under the pen name Acton Bell. Her first novel,
Agnes Grey, was published in 1847 with
Wuthering Heights. Her second novel,
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in 1848 and is thought to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. Anne died at 29, probably of pulmonary tuberculosis. After Anne's death, her sister Charlotte edited
Agnes Grey to fix issues with its first edition, but prevented republication of
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. This is one reason why Anne is not as well known as her sisters. Nonetheless both of Anne's novels are considered classics of English literature today.