“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend, chronicling the events connected with his meeting a mysterious young widow named Helen Graham. She arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion that has been empty for many years, with her young son and a servant. Contrary to early 19th-century norms, Helen pursues an artist’s career and makes an income by selling her pictures. However, her strict seclusion leads to gossip in the neighboring village, and she becomes a social outcast. Gilbert befriends her and discovers her past through a diary she gives him. In this diary, Helen chronicles her husband’s physical and moral decline due to alcohol and debauchery in his dissipated aristocratic milieu. Ultimately, she flees with her son, desperate to save him from his father’s influence. The novel addresses marital strife, women’s professional work, and universal salvation, making it one of the first feminist novels.
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