The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Informationen zum Autor Anne Brontë (1820-49), the youngest of the famous sisters, drew upon her experiences as a governess to write her first novel, Agnes Grey. Her second, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was partly inspired by her dissolute brother, and she died from tuberculosis a year after its publication. Despite its popularity, Charlotte Brontë suppressed the book's republication, leaving it to be rediscovered as an early feminist classic. Klappentext Hailed as an early and under-appreciated feminist classic, this novel by the youngest Brontë sister was an overnight sensation that scandalized critics with its realistic portrayal of adultery, alcoholism, and marital strife.

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Anne Brontë (1820-49), the youngest of the famous sisters, drew upon her experiences as a governess to write her first novel, Agnes Grey. Her second, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was partly inspired by her dissolute brother, and she died from tuberculosis a year after its publication. Despite its popularity, Charlotte Brontë suppressed the book's republication, leaving it to be rediscovered as an early feminist classic.

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Hailed as an early and under-appreciated feminist classic, this novel by the youngest Brontë sister was an overnight sensation that scandalized critics with its realistic portrayal of adultery, alcoholism, and marital strife.