The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Anne Brontė was the youngest of the sister writers, and was closest to Emily with whom she invented the imaginary world of Gondal, the setting for many of their best poems. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second of her novels (after Agnes Grey) and was published a year before her death, in 1848. Anne was by nature and (Wesleyan) influence a girl of religious melancholy and something of this temperament surfaces in this novel's morbid bleakness. Wildfell Hall is narrated by a young farmer, Gilbert Markham, and the story initially focuses upon his love for Helen Graham. Helen is a widow, though still young, and has only recently arrived in the vicinity with her son Arthur. Gilbert discredits local gossip that begins about Helen, the new tenant, and her landlord Lawrence due to their friendship but subsequently hears the two talking intimately and beats Lawrence uncompromisingly. Only then does the truth emerge of Helen's past and her relationship with the landlord. An inspiration for Huntingdon, a wasted talent and drunkard, is said to have been Anne's brother Branwell. The novel was, like Emily Brontė's Wuthering Heights, criticised for its dark perspective when published.
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Table of contents |
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
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Chapter 28
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Chapter 29
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Chapter 30
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Chapter 31
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Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
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Chapter 35
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Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 38
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Chapter 39
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Chapter 40
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Chapter 41
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Chapter 42
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Chapter 43
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Chapter 44
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Chapter 45
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Chapter 46
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Chapter 47
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Chapter 48
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Chapter 49
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Chapter 50
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Chapter 51
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Chapter 52
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Chapter 53
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