The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen ‘Graham’ – exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion,adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter – has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markhamand in the pages of her own diarythe novel portrays Helen’s eloquent struggle for independence at a time when the law and society defined a married woman as her husband’s property.