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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a romantic novel written by Anne Brontë and originally published in 1848.
The story is narrated in epistolary form by Gilbert Markham, a young man who lives with his mother and siblings in a small town where the huge and abandoned mansion known as Wildfell Hall is located.
A new tenant arrives at the mansion: Helen Graham. She is a mysterious widowwho arrives with her son Arthur and quickly becomes the talk of the town.
No one knows her origin or the reasons for her move. With great strength and feminist character, she will be subjected to the macho society of the time.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall deals with issues such as marriage, the situation of women in Victorian society, infidelity, motherhood and alcoholism.
"You must go back with me to the autumn of 1827.
My father, as you know, was a sort of gentleman farmer in —shire; and I, by his express desire, succeeded him in the same quiet occupation, not very willingly, for ambition urged me to higher aims, and self-conceit assured me that, in disregarding its voice, I was burying my talent in the earth, and hiding my light under a bushel."
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Anne Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.
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Because, I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one, he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.
Smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.
I have such confidence in him, aunt, notwithstanding all you say, that I would willingly risk my happiness for the chance of securing his. I will leave better men to those who only consider their own advantage. If he has done amiss, I shall consider my life well spent in saving him from the consequences of his early errors, and striving to recall him to the path of virtue—God grant me success!.