The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Resumen del libro

'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it' In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale of marital cruelty, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" sees a mysterious tenant, Helen Graham, unmasked not as a 'wicked woman' as the local gossips would have it, but as the estranged wife of a brutal alcoholic bully, desperate to protect her son. Using her own experiences with her brother Branwell to depict the cruelty and debauchery from which Helen flees, Anne Bronte wrote her masterpiece to reflect the fragile position of women in society and her belief in universal redemption, but scandalized readers of the time.

Biografía del autor

Ensombrecida por sus hermanas mayores Charlotte y Emily (autoras, respectivamente, de "Jane Eyre" y de "Cumbres Borrascosas", publicadas también en esta serie), sólo recientemente Anne Brontë (1820-1849), la menor de las tres hermanas Brontë, ha alcanzado reconocimiento. Algunos estudiosos no han dudado en señalar en su novela "Agnes Grey", también disponible en Alianza Editorial, puntos de contacto con la gran Jane Austen.<br> <br> CENTENARIO ANNE BRONTË (1820-2020)