The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Wordsworth) -

Anne Bronte

Wordsworth

1996

402 páginas

13h 24m

ISBN-13: 9781853264887

Is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ¿tenant¿ of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father¿s influence, and 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 Brontë¿s second novel was criticised for being ¿coarse¿ and ¿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

Brontë¿s style is bold, naturalistic and passionate, and 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 Brontë family.

This newly reset text is taken from a copy of the 1848 second edition in the Library of the Brontë Parsonage Museum and has been edited to correct known errors in that edition.

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Notas pessoais sobre a minha leitura

Essa leitura foi incrível. Começou com uma estilo de escrita muito parecido com um romance de Jane Austen e depois quando a história começa a ser contada pelos diários de Helen muda a atmosfera totalmente e ali você enxerga o romance gótico que dizem ser uma resposta a o que teria acontecido se Cathy e Heathcliff (personagens do livro de sua irmã Emily Brontë) se casassem. Foi uma experiência fantástica e a escrita da Anne é muito flúida te faz querer continuar lendo, foi bem diferente de ler Morro dos Ventos Uivantes que foi uma leitura bem difícil pra mim.