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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

Category: Fiction

Status: Available

Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg

About This Book

"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" by Anne Brontë is a novel published in 1848. A mysterious widow arrives at an isolated mansion with her young son, defying social convention by earning her living as an artist. When she becomes the target of scandal and gossip, a local farmer defends her—until he discovers shocking secrets about her past. Through diary entries, the truth emerges about a disastrous marriage and a desperate escape that violated both society's rules and the law itself.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MRS HUMPHREY WARD

LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1920

Contents

This Table of Contents contains the original chapter headings that were present in the first printed edition of 1848. These headings were removed in later (one-volume) editions of the text, after Anne Brontë’s death in 1849.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Portrait of Anne Brontë Moorland Scene, Haworth Moorland scene (with water): Haworth Moorland scene (with cottage), Haworth Blake Hall—The Approach (Grassdale Manor) Blake Hall—Front (Grassdale Manor) Blake Hall—Side (Grassdale Manor)

INTRODUCTION

Anne Brontë serves a twofold purpose in the study of what the Brontës wrote and were. In th

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