![]() ![]() Not that it is a pleasant book to read, nor, as we fancy, has it been a pleasant book to write still less has it been a pleasant training which could teach an author such awful facts, or give courage to write them. It is, taken altogether, a powerful and an interesting book. One review that is particularly telling of the mixture of shock and esteem directed towards the novel comes from Charles Kingsley in his review for Fraser’s Magazine:Ī people’s novel of a very different school is The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. It achieved almost immediate success, however, its depiction of Helen Lawrence Huntington slamming her bedroom door in her husband’s face and eventually leaving his home with their child under an assumed name was controversial and shocking to its contemporary readers and critics. It was her second and final novel, however, many contemporary critics believed that Tenant, as well as all of the other Brontë novels were written by a single male author. ![]() ![]() Anne Brontë’s epistolary novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) was the most shocking of all the Brontës’ works and was published under Anne’s pseudonym Acton Bell. ![]()
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