Boarham/Elderly Traveler: Ernst Pattynama In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation. In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Read by a full cast.Ī mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. LibriVox recording of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte.
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