"Helen Graham (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) Helen Lawrence (married name is Helen Huntingdon but she is most commonly known under her alias Helen Graham) is the main female protagonist of Anne Brontë's 1848 novel ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". Helen was portrayed by Janet Munro in the 1968 TV adaptation and Tara FitzGerald in the 1996 miniseries. Helen Lawrence was born in 1802 (or in the first half of 1803) at Wildfell Hall. Rachel, later her maid and friend, takes care of infant Helen. Her mother dies when Helen is still too young to remember her. Immediately after that,"
"Helen's diary; and in turn, Helen's diary includes Arthur's autobiographical reminiscences. Anne Brontë starts her novel in a social comedy manner, reminiscent of Jane Austen. Like ""Pride and Prejudice"", ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" starts with the arrival of a new person in a neighbourhood — a source of curiosity for a small rural community. Unlike Austen, Brontë makes a woman the center of interest. Reticent Mrs. Graham with her views on alcohol consumption and girls’ education, controversial for the 19th century, soon becomes an outcast. Tess O'Toole calls ""The Tenant"" ""the most unusual example of 19th century domestic fiction"","
"America as she planned before, Helen, with help from her brother, Frederick, finds a secret refuge at Wildfell Hall. She lives there under an assumed name: Helen Graham (Graham is her mother's maiden name). There she meets Gilbert Markham, a young farmer who falls in love with her. When he begins to believe the filthy gossip that is spread about her, she gives him her diary. From it Gilbert learns than Helen is a runaway wife. Soon after this, Helen goes back to Grassdale Manor where she discovers that Huntingdon has fallen from his horse (in a state of inebriation)"
"outsold Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"". However, the critical reception was mixed — praise for the novel's ""power"" and ""effect"" and sharp criticism for being ""coarse"". Charlotte Brontë herself, Anne's sister, wrote to her publisher that it ""hardly seems to me desirable to choice of subject in that work is a mistake."" After Anne's death, Charlotte prevented the novel's republication and thus condemned her sister to temporary oblivion. The master theme is the alcoholism of a man who causes the downfall of his family. Helen Graham, the central character, gets married for love to Arthur Huntingdon, whom she soon discovers to be"
"1872. However, neither Blake Hall nor Thorpe Green, another house where Anne was employed as a governess, corresponds exactly with Grassdale. Linden-Car, the village that Wildfell Hall stands close to, is in Yorkshire. ""Car"" in northern dialect means pool, pond or low-lying and boggy ground. Lindenhope ""hope"" in Northeastern English means a small enclosed valley. The novel is divided into three volumes. Part One (Chapters 1 to 15): Gilbert Markham narrates how a mysterious widow, Mrs Helen Graham, arrives at Wildfell Hall, a nearby mansion. A source of curiosity for the small community, the reticent Mrs Graham and her young"
"Helen (novel) Helen is a novel by Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849). It was written in 1834, late in the writer's life. ""Helen"" tells the story of a young orphan, Helen Stanley, whose guardian, Dean Stanley, has squandered his fortune and left Helen without means of support. She is forced to take up residence with the local vicar, whose wife is astonished that none of the Stanleys' aristocratic friends have offered a refuge to her. Eventually, however, the Davenant family returns from abroad and invite Helen to their daughter's new home, Clarendon Park. (Cecilia Davenant has just married General Clarendon.) Helen journeys"
"for many years, with her young son and a servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert befriends Helen and discovers her past. In her diary, Helen depicts her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and her desperate attempts to save their son from his influence in the dissipated aristocratic society from which she ultimately flees. The depiction of marital strife and women's professional identification has also a strong moral message mitigated by the authors's belief in"
"Graham used are: Poldark Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002. The series comprises 12 novels: the first seven are set in the 18th century, concluding in Christmas 1799; the remaining five are concerned with the early years of the 19th century and the lives of the descendants of the previous novels' main characters. Graham wrote the first four ""Poldark"" books during the 1940s and 1950s. Following a long hiatus, he decided to resume the series and published ""The Black Moon"" in 1973. The main character,"
"scenario being a resourceful female menaced in a gloomy castle. The Gothic tradition blossomed into the genre modern readers call horror literature in the 19th century. Influential works and characters that continue resonating with film and cinema today saw their genesis in such works as the Brothers Grimm's ""Hänsel und Gretel"" (1812), Mary Shelley's ""Frankenstein"" (1818), Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820), Jane C. Loudon's """" (1827), Victor Hugo's ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"" (1831), Thomas Peckett Prest's ""Varney the Vampire"" (1847), Nathaniel Hawthorne's ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850), the works of Edgar Allan Poe, the works of Sheridan"
"Charlotte, is another major nineteenth century novel that has gothic themes. Anne's second novel ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848), written in realistic rather than romantic style, is mainly considered to be the first sustained feminist novel. Later in this period George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), published ""The Mill on the Floss"" in 1860, and in 1872 her most famous work ""Middlemarch"". Like the Brontës she published under a masculine pseudonym. In the later decades of the Victorian era Thomas Hardy was the most important novelist. His works include ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872), ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874),"
"Byron's personal physician, John Polidori, who adapted an enigmatic fragmentary tale of his illustrious patient, ""Fragment of a Novel"" (1819), also known as ""The Burial: A Fragment"". Byron's own dominating personality, mediated by his lover Lady Caroline Lamb in her unflattering ""roman-a-clef"" ""Glenarvon"" (a Gothic fantasia based on Byron's wild life), was used as a model for Polidori's undead protagonist Lord Ruthven. ""The Vampyre"" was highly successful and the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century. ""Varney the Vampire"" was a landmark popular mid-Victorian era gothic horror story by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, which first"
"against spousal abuse needs no scandal-mongering allusions to be sensational. The character of Helen Graham may have been inspired by Anna Isabella Milbanke, the wife of George Byron, who also thought at first that her religious obligation was to improve her husband's behavior, but very soon she got disillusioned, separated from him and raised their child alone. Despite this, she – like Helen – believed in the ultimate salvation of her husband's soul. In ""The Tenant"" vice is not unique to the men. Lady Lowborough's adultery has a particularly devastating effect on her husband, and the malice of Eliza Millward"
"and the early 20th century are fine novels and good fun to read. ""The Game and the Candle"" (1899) is like Jane Austen's ""Persuasion"" (1818) rewritten. Only this time the heroine has married for rational reasons and is freed in the beginning for her true love, which reason forbade her to marry years before. Her dying husband's last will forces her to decide between love and fortune. However, a renewed encounter with her former lover forces her to see it was actually a good thing she had not married him. His love turns to be too shallow for her happiness."
"Ramona Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican–American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scots–Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the ""Christian Union"" on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, and been adapted five times as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923. The novel's influence on the culture and image of Southern California was considerable. Its sentimental portrayal of Mexican colonial life contributed to establishing"
"Poldark Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002. The series comprises 12 novels: the first seven are set in the 18th century, concluding in Christmas 1799; the remaining five are concerned with the early years of the 19th century and the lives of the descendants of the previous novels' main characters. Graham wrote the first four ""Poldark"" books during the 1940s and 1950s. Following a long hiatus, he decided to resume the series and published ""The Black Moon"" in 1973. The main character, Ross Poldark, is"
"building a three-story building. Single handedly. Jeffery Renard Allen scores highly with this novel about the life of the nineteenth century savant, BlindTom."" - Ishmael Reed Song of the Shank The publisher described the novel as following: At the heart of this remarkable novel is Thomas Greene Wiggins, a nineteenth-century slave and improbable musical genius who performed under the name Blind Tom. In 1866, Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to readjust to their fashionable apartment in the City in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from"
"the first female protagonist throughout a Scottish novel. Physician John Moore's novel ""Zeluco"" (1789) focused on an anti-hero, the Italian nobleman of the title, and was a major influence on the work of Byron. As elsewhere in the British Isles there was a tradition of moral and domestic fiction in the early nineteenth century. It did not flourish to the same extent in Scotland, but did produce a number of significant publications. These included Elizabeth Hamilton's (1756?–1816), ""Cottagers of Glenburnie"" (1808), Mary Brunton's (1778–1818) ""Discipline"" (1814) and Christian Johnstone's ""Clan-Albin"" (1815). The outstanding literary figure of the early nineteenth century"
"works of the nineteenth century is the Gothic novella “Carmilla,” by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, first published in serial form in 1871-72. Considered a precursor to and an inspiration for Bram Stoker's ""Dracula"", “Carmilla” tells the story of the relationship between the innocent Laura and the vampire Carmilla, whose sucking of Laura's blood is clearly linked to an erotic attraction to Laura. This story has inspired many other works that take advantage of the trope of the lesbian vampire. It was also adapted into a YouTube webseries of the same name beginning in 2014. The first novel in the English"
"novel is James's comparison of the adultery of Amerigo and Charlotte vs. the self-absorption of Maggie and Adam. Marrying Charlotte to Adam is at first Maggie's response to her leaving her widowed father alone, and then Charlotte and Amerigo's adultery is enabled by Maggie and Adam's relationship. The film treats this aspect of the novel rather superficially. Henry James, ""The Golden Bowl"" (Wordsworth Classics, 2000), ed. Nicola Bradbury, The Golden Bowl The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the ""major"
"lead character of ""The Vampire"" (1852), a play by Dion Boucicault. Boucicault himself played the lead role to great effect, though the play itself had mixed reviews. Queen Victoria, who saw the play, described it in her diary as ""very trashy"". An important later example of 19th-century Vampire fiction is the penny dreadful epic ""Varney the Vampire"" (1847) featuring Sir Francis Varney as the Vampire. In this story we have the first example of the standard trope in which the vampire comes through the window at night and attacks a maiden as she lies sleeping. Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering"
"there were precursors in the 18th century, like ""Amelia"" by Henry Fielding (1751), ""Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams"" (1794) by William Godwin, ""The Adventures of Hugh Trevor"" (1794–1797) by Thomas Holcroft, and ""Nature and Art"" (1796) by Elizabeth Inchbald. However, whereas Inchbald laid responsibility for social problems with the depravity and corruption of individuals, Godwin, in ""Caleb Williams"", saw society's corruption as insurmountable. In England during the 1830s and 1840s the social novel ""arose out of the social and political upheavals which followed the Reform Act of 1832"". This was in many ways a reaction"
"time it was written, was possibly the most successful of all her novels–namely, ""Helen"". Any reader who will take it down from its shelf, and glance over it, will quickly perceive that it is a novel of a very much more modern type than any other by the same hand. In reading it we are aware that the eighteenth century has at last dropped out of sight, and that we are well out upon the nineteenth, not indeed as yet 'Victorian', but in a sort of midway region, on the road to that superior epoch."" Helen (novel) Helen is a"
"University. Graham's first novel ""The House with the Stained Glass Windows"" was published in 1934. His first Poldark novel ""Ross Poldark"" was published in 1945 and was succeeded by a series of eleven further titles, the last of which, ""Bella Poldark"", was published in 2002. The series was set in Cornwall, especially in and near Perranporth where Graham lived for more than three decades (1925–1960). Graham was also an accomplished author of suspense novels and, during the course of his life, wrote thirty-two novels (in addition to the twelve Poldark books). The 1941 spy thriller ""Night Journey"", set in Nazi-occupied"
"as any hero in one of Scott's novels. In Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) the narrator, Gilbert Markham, brings an elegantly bound copy of ""Marmion"" as a present to the independent ""tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (Helen Graham) whom he is courting, and is mortified when she insists on paying for it. In a speech delivered at Salem, Massachusetts, on 6 January 1860, to raise money for the families of the executed abolitionist John Brown and his followers, Ralph Waldo Emerson calls Brown an example of true chivalry, which consists not in noble birth but in helping the"
"Allan Poe, particularly his poem ""The Sleeper"" (1831). It has been argued that Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 novel ""Carmilla"" is a homage or adaptation of ""Christabel"". Le Fanu's antagonist Carmilla has certain similarities with ""Christabel""'s Geraldine; for instance, she cannot cross the threshold of a house, and seems to be stronger at night. Likewise, the heroines of the two works are similar, both Christabel and Laura are the children of deceased mothers currently in the charge of their widowed fathers. Geraldine's presence gives Christabel similar symptoms as Carmilla's does to Laura; both heroines experience troubled sleep and weakness in"
"Markham, succeeded in revealing her secrets. For a full length summary see: ""The Tenant of WIldfell Hall"" plot summary. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996 miniseries) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker. The serial stars Tara Fitzgerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham. A mysterious young woman arrives at Wildfell Hall, an old mansion of Elizabethan era with a young son. She determines to lead an independent"
"April 1819 by Henry Colburn in the ""New Monthly Magazine"" with the false attribution ""A Tale by Lord Byron"". The name of the work's protagonist, ""Lord Ruthven"", added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb's novel ""Glenarvon"" (from the same publisher), in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified. The tale was first published in book form by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones in London, Paternoster-Row, in 1819 in octavo as ""The Vampyre; A Tale"" in 84 pages. The notation"
"the saint on top of its tower. The arms of Nottingham are almost identical because of the city's connection with Cole, her supposed father. In medieval legend and chivalric romance, Helena appears as a persecuted heroine, in the vein of such women as ""Emaré"" and ""Constance""; separated from her husband, she lives a quiet life, supporting herself on her embroidery, until such time as her son's charm and grace wins her husband's attention and so the revelation of their identities. Helena is the protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Helena"". She is also the main character of ""Priestess of Avalon"" (2000),"
"The Ivory Tower The Ivory Tower is an unfinished novel by Henry James, posthumously published in 1917. The novel is a brooding story of Gilded Age America. It centers on the riches earned by a pair of dying millionaires and ex-partners, Abel Gaw and Frank Betterman, and their possibly corrupting effect on the people around them. Graham (""Gray"") Fielder returns from Europe to the wealthy resort of Newport, Rhode Island, to see his dying uncle Frank Betterman. Rosanna Gaw, the daughter of Betterman's embittered ex-partner Abel Gaw, is also at Newport. She has succeeded in bringing about a partial reconciliation"
"the attention this novel attracted among the intellectual portion of the North, the following was a criticism from ""Gail Hamilton"" of New England:— In ""Henry James and the ""Woman Business"""" (2004), writer Alfred Habegger accuses Henry James of plagiarizing Crane's novels after her death and rewriting them under his own name. He believes that a scathing anonymous obituary was in fact written by James who had every reason, he contends, to want her forgotten:— Emily Chester Emily Chester was an American novel written by Anne Moncure Crane in 1864. It was published without a word of preface to give the"
"Margaret Hale Margaret Hale is the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel ""North and South"". Initially, Gaskell wanted the title of the novel to be ""Margaret Hale"", but Charles Dickens, the editor of ""Household Words"", the magazine in which the novel was serialized, insisted on ""North and South"". From Chapter Two: From Chapter Seven: Margaret was a character created to challenge stereotypes about women's role in the 19th century. The theme of challenging stereotypes is one which is integral throughout the novel. Margaret Hale is nineteen years old and before she was 10, lived in Helstone in Hampshire, in the"
"Graham, the tenant of the title, intrigues Gilbert Markham and gradually she reveals her past as an artist and wife of the dissipated Arthur Huntingdon. The book's brilliance lies in its revelation of the position of women at the time, and its multi-layered plot. It is easy today to underestimate the extent to which the novel challenged existing social and legal structures. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen Huntingdon's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. Anne's heroine eventually left her husband to protect their young son from his influence. She supported herself and"
"is mirrored in other novels that were more highly popularised in the beginning of the 19th century. Jane Austen's novels are perhaps the most recognisable works in the genre. Because of Austen's works, the novel of manners is mostly associated with the early 19th century. The rise in the importance of social behaviour had not gone unnoticed by one Horace Walpole, the widely credited inventor of Gothic fiction. Walpole's knowledge of Chesterfield and the importance of manners perhaps influenced not only his work but carried over into other authors' novels dubbed ""Gothic"" as well. Walpole wrote what is generally accepted"