Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)

A woman arriving with a child becomes the neighbours' favourite subject before they know her circumstances. Anne Brontë turns that gossip towards a much harder question: what does marriage permit a man to do, and what room does a woman have to leave? The diary inside the framing letters gives the judgemental conversation a different centre. Domestic abuse and alcoholism are substantial, not decorative darkness. Read an unabridged text with an introduction that explains its history.