The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Summary
Anne Brontë

In Conversations in Ebury Street (1924), George Moore declared that "if Anne Brontë had lived ten years longer, she would have taken a place beside Jane Austen, perhaps even a higher place"; in ... Read more

In the following anonymous review, the critic compares The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to Jane Eyre, claiming that the two were written by the same author, and that both are deplorable in nature. The name... Read more

In the following essay, Carnell claims that The Tenant of Wildfell Hall does not challenge the traditional Victorian separation of men and women into public and domestic spheres. The narrative structu... Read more

In the following essay, Jackson asserts that The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, despite the flaw of its somewhat burdensome narrative structure, avoids melodrama by counter-balancing Helen Huntingdon'... Read more

In the following essay, Gordon studies gossip and narrative enclosure in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, as well as the relationship between Anne Brontë's novel and his sister Emily'... Read more

In the following essay, Kostka considers Gilbert Markham's reading of Helen Huntingdon's diary as the act of an inexperienced male achieving maturity via female writing. One of the pleas... Read more

In the following essay, Thormählen argues against traditional, biographically motivated estimates of Arthur Huntingdon by examining the character in cultural context, particularly in relation t... Read more