The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: An Introduction

[Marie]

In this sensational, hard-hitting and 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 and debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Bronte wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society and her belief in universal redemption, but scandalized readers of the time.

from the penguin english library edition

Reading Schedule for May 2017

Week One : Chapters 1-11
Week Two : Chapters 12-22
Week Three : Chapters 23-33
Week Four : Chapters 34-43
Week Five : Chapters 44-53