Review the tenant of wildfell hall7/3/2023 Huntingdon, gathering his coat-laps under his arms, and setting his shoulder against the mantel-piece, turned to me, and, addressing me in a low voice, scarcely above his breath, poured forth a volley of the vilest and grossest abuse it was possible for the imagination to conceive or the tongue to utter. Huntington (the husband) thinks Helen’s been unfaithful: It's such a surprising book that you have the feeling that if the language was just a bit updated, any modern writer could have written the story in all its sheer crudeness and realism, with very few glimpses of Victorian melodramatics. Her plan is to lead a reclusive life and earn her own money by painting, but the curiosity and malicious gossip of her new neighbors puts her secret, honor and safety in jeopardy. When Helen starts to realize the dangerous influence her husband has on their son, she decided to run away. As time goes by he reveals himself an abusive husband, a gambler, alcoholic and generally a scoundrel. The Tenant is the story of Helen, who in her late teens, and against the advice of her family, falls in love and marries a man who apparently is all charm and passion. Just I had foreseen after reading Agnes Grey earlier this year, after The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne-the-forgotten-sister officially became my favorite Brontë. Topics: Love, (abusive) Marriage, Parenthood, Alcoholism, Religion, (Proto)Feminism
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