The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bront
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bront
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Author: Anne Bront

Narrator: Nadia May and Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 15 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

The bleak Yorkshire moors and the presence of an old mansion set the stage for a tragedy that reveals the secret violence of a battered wife in a society considered well mannered.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on April 17, 2018

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is not quite Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre, but I did really enjoy it. It's surprising, given how dated the characters' moralizing is, but I was so swept up in the past and the setting that I felt totally 19th-Century level shocked by the cheating and lying and *gasp* dr......more

Goodreads review by Amy on June 21, 2008

Carol said I must list my all time favorite books. What a challenge this is! I have read everything those Bronte girls wrote, even their childhood poetry and I love all of it. But Anne will take the showing on my list for her bravery. Of course Charlotte was the most prolific and Emily the true brai......more

Goodreads review by emma on April 27, 2022

welcome to...TENANT OF WILD(APRIL) HALL. doesn't roll off the tongue like middlemarch march, but elle and i bravely march on in our project of reading long classics in small installments over the course of a month. also - not enough houses have names these days, in my opinion. might start walking ar......more

Goodreads review by Ruby on January 24, 2021

I've read this once before (I was thirteen and we went to the beach for the day; I read it in a single sitting and didn't end up swimming at all because I loved it so much!). The plot is fast-paced and was just as enjoyable this time around. The book is written part-epistolary and part-diary. Like F......more

Goodreads review by Emily on April 21, 2022

I really enjoyed this one... more than Jane Eyre! I knew I needed to decide which Bronte sister I liked the most and this is it. Anne was definitely a feminist and it shows in this book. I definitely understand why it was controversial when it was first published. (view spoiler)[I thought Gilbert was insufferable. I (hide spoiler)]......more