The Tenant of Wildfell Hall — Anne Bronte

In "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" Anne Bronte wished to 'tell the truth, for the truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.'

Anne Bronte's heroine, Helen Huntingdon, having endured too many of the 'revolting scenes' deplored by contemporary reviewers, leaves her dissolute husband in order to earn her own living and rescue her son from his influence. A passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is compelling in its imaginative power, in the bold naturalism of its central scenes, the realism and range of its dialogue, and in its psychological insight into the characters involved in the marital battle.