Which of the Brontë sisters wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848?
"clear and full of soul'. 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"
"part of the county around Haworth being nicknamed Brontë Country in their honour. Their novels, written in the mid-19th century, caused a sensation when they were first published, yet were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature. Among the most celebrated novels written by the sisters are Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"". ""Wuthering Heights"" was almost a source used to depict life in Yorkshire, illustrating the type of people that reside there in its characters, and emphasising the use of the stormy Yorkshire moors. Nowadays, the parsonage"
"know that the books related to people of the neighbourhood. The Brontës used their neighbours as inspiration for characters in many of their books. Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" under the name Acton Bell. Charlotte Brontë published ""Shirley"" and ""Jane Eyre"" under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë published ""Wuthering Heights"" as Ellis Bell. A well-known example of the former is Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Another example is Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, a 19th-century French writer who used the pen name George Sand. In contrast, some twentieth and twenty first century male romance"
"of Wildfell Hall"" was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is not as well known as her sisters. However, her novels, like those of her sisters, have become classics of English literature. Anne's father, Patrick Brontë (1777–1861), was born in a two-room cottage in Emdale, Loughbrickland, County Down, Ireland. He was the oldest of ten children born to Hugh Brunty and Eleanor McCrory, poor Irish peasant farmers. The family surname ""mac Aedh Ó Proinntigh"" was Anglicised as Prunty or Brunty. Struggling against poverty, Patrick learned to read and write and from 1798 taught others. In 1802, at 25,"
"at the gravesite to mark the installation of the new plaque. A year after Anne's death, further editions of her novels were reprinted but Charlotte prevented re-publication of ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". In 1850, Charlotte wrote """"Wildfell Hall"" it hardly appears to me desirable to preserve. The choice of subject in that work is a mistake, it was too little consonant with the character, tastes and ideas of the gentle, retiring inexperienced writer."" Subsequent critics paid less attention to Anne's work, and those such as Lane dismissed her as ""a Brontë without genius"" and gave her output little consideration."
"had managed to build a new life for herself and her two children. The Brontë biographer Winifred Gérin believed that the original of Wildfell Hall was Ponden Hall, a farmhouse near Stanbury in West Yorkshire. Ponden shares certain architectural details with Wildfell, including latticed windows and a central portico with a date plaque above. Blake Hall at Mirfield, where Anne had been employed as a governess, was suggested as the model for Grassdale Manor, Arthur Huntingdon's country seat, by Ellen Nussey, a friend of Charlotte Brontë, to Edward Morison Wimperis, an artist commissioned to illustrate the Brontë sisters' novels in"
"which located about half a mile outside Stanbury, is believed to inspire at least two buildings in Brontës' novels: Thrushcross Grange in ""Wuthering Heights"" and the eponymous mansion in ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". Thornton, on the outskirts of Bradford, is the birthplace of the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell (their father was rector of Thornton church). The house where they were born still exists as the Brontë Birthplace and is open to visitors by appointment. It is located on Market Street in the centre of the village Other places of interest from the Brontë sisters' novels include Oakwell"
"Anne's second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", an action which had a deleterious effect on Anne's popularity as a novelist and has remained controversial among the sisters' biographers ever since. In view of the success of her novels, particularly ""Jane Eyre"", Brontë was persuaded by her publisher to make occasional visits to London, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in more exalted social circles, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau and Elizabeth Gaskell, and acquainted with William Makepeace Thackeray and G.H. Lewes. She never left Haworth for more than a few weeks at a time, as"
"at the age of 30. ""Wuthering Heights"" was her only novel. Anne, born in Market Street Thornton on 17 January 1820, was a poet and novelist. She wrote a largely autobiographical novel entitled ""Agnes Grey"", but her second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848), was far more ambitious. She died on 28 May 1849 in Scarborough at the age of 29. Patrick Brontë faced a challenge in arranging for the education of the girls of his family, which was barely middle class. They had no significant connections and he could not afford the fees for them to attend an"
"destroyed the manuscript, if it existed, when she was prevented by illness from completing it. It has also been suggested that, though less likely, the letter could have been intended for Anne Brontë, who was already writing ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", her second novel. Emily's health was probably weakened by the harsh local climate and by unsanitary conditions at home, the source of water being contaminated by runoff from the church's graveyard. Branwell died suddenly, on Sunday, September 24, 1848. At his funeral service, a week later, Emily caught a severe cold which quickly developed into inflammation of the"
"Angels family vault in Haworth. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern"
"Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but"
"debate concentrating on questions around the moral soundness of the modern novel. Questions about artistic integrity, as well as aesthetics, including, for example. the idea of ""art for art's sake"", proposed by writers like Oscar Wilde and Algernon Charles Swinburne, were also important. Major British writers such as Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy were influenced by the romance genre tradition of the novel, which had been revitalized during the Romantic period. The Brontë sisters were notable mid-19th-century authors in this tradition, with Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", Charlotte Brontë's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily Brontë's ""Wuthering Heights"". Publishing at"
"universal salvation. Most critics now consider ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" to be one of the first feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In leaving her husband, Helen violates not only social conventions, but also the early 19th century English law. Some aspects of the life and character of the author's brother Branwell Brontë correspond to those of Arthur Huntingdon in ""The Tenant"". He resembles Branwell Brontë in three ways: physical good-looks; sexual adventures (before his affair with his employer's wife, Mrs Robinson, Branwell is"
"she held or income she made was legally his. In the second edition of ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", which appeared in August 1848, Anne clearly stated her intentions in writing it. She presented a forceful rebuttal to critics (Charlotte was among them) who considered her portrayal of Huntingdon overly graphic and disturbing. Anne sharply castigated reviewers who speculated on the sex of the authors, and the appropriateness of their writing, in words that do little to reinforce the stereotype of Anne as meek and gentle. In July 1848, to dispel the rumour that the ""Bell brothers"" were all the"
"Amongst the most noted novels credited to the sisters are Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"". Ted Hughes wrote two collections that show his love for Yorkshire: ""Remains of Elmet"" (1979) and ""Elmet"" (1994), in which the ghost of Emily Brontë still haunts the moor. In the present day, the most prominent Yorkshire presences in English literature are the playwright, author, actor, screenwriter and commentator Alan Bennett, born 1934 in Leeds, where much of his work is set, and the poet, playwright and screenwriter Tony Harrison, born three years later in the same"
"Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern England, to Maria Branwell and an Irish father,"
"""per se"""". Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë (, ; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. She enlisted in school at Roe Head in January 1831, aged 14 years. She left the year after to teach her sisters, Emily and Anne, at home, returning in 1835 as a governess. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family, but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a"
"in various animals, including humans, and Peter Brontë Gatenby, the Medical Director of the UN. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" was the"
"education at a convent correspond over a 17-year period, exchanging letters describing their lives. Mary Shelley employs the epistolary form in her novel ""Frankenstein"" (1818). Shelley uses the letters as one of a variety of framing devices, as the story is presented through the letters of a sea captain and scientific explorer attempting to reach the north pole who encounters Victor Frankenstein and records the dying man's narrative and confessions. Published in 1848, Anne Brontë's novel ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is framed as a retrospective letter from one of the main heroes to his friend and brother-in-law with the"
"costs. Their publisher, urged on by the success of ""Jane Eyre"", published ""Wuthering Heights"" and ""Agnes Grey"" in December 1847. They sold well, but ""Agnes Grey"" was outshone by Emily's more dramatic ""Wuthering Heights"". Anne's second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", was published in the last week of June 1848. It was an instant, phenomenal success; within six weeks it was sold out. ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is perhaps amongst the most shocking of contemporary Victorian novels. In seeking to present the truth in literature, Anne's depiction of alcoholism and debauchery was profoundly disturbing to 19th-century sensibilities. Helen"
"she still acted out scenes from the little books with Anne while travelling on the train to York. ""Remembrance"" was one of the 21 of Emily's poems that were chosen for the 1846 joint publication before which, Emily had deleted all references to ""Gondal"". Anne was not as celebrated as her other two sisters. Her second novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", was prevented from being republished after Anne's death by her sister Charlotte, who wrote to her publisher that ""Wildfell Hall it hardly appears to me desirable to preserve. The choice of subject in that work is a mistake,"
"in a collection of letters, her sister Charlotte wrote about how Emily had to work from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. each day and was more of a governess than a teacher. Emily wrote poetry while at Law Hill and became fascinated by the story of intrigue and feuding which surrounded the house's builder, Jack Sharp, and his near neighbours, the Walker family of Walterclough Hall. It is said she reflected the story in the plot of her novel ""Wuthering Heights"" and that the central character Heathcliff was based on Sharp himself. A plaque on the wall commemorates Brontë's stay"
"""Oliver Twist"", the failures of the legal system in ""Bleak House"", An early rival to Dickens was William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863), who during the Victorian period ranked second only to him, but he is now known almost exclusively for ""Vanity Fair"" (1847). The Brontë sisters, Emily, Charlotte and Anne, were other significant novelists in the 1840s and 1850s. ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), Charlotte Brontë's most famous work, was the first of the sisters' novels to achieve success. Emily Brontë's (1818–1848) novel was ""Wuthering Heights"" and, according to Juliet Gardiner, ""the vivid sexual passion and power of its language and imagery impressed,"
"bewildered and appalled reviewers,"" and led the Victorian public and many early reviewers to think that it had been written by a man. ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1848) by Anne Brontë is now considered to be one of the first feminist novels. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) was also a successful writer and her ""North and South"" contrasts the lifestyle in the industrial north of England with the wealthier south. Anthony Trollope's (1815–1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early"
"published ""Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood"". Edgar Allan Poe published the poem ""Ulalume"". In 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, ""Vanity Fair"" was published. Elizabeth Gaskell published ""Mary Barton"". Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". Grant Allen was born. Edgar Allan Poe published a book-length essay he called a prose poem: """". In 1849, both Anne Brontë and Edgar Allan Poe died. Poe's poems ""Annabel Lee"" and ""The Bells"" were published posthumously. Dostoyevski published ""Netochka Nezvanova"". The poet Emma Lazarus was born 22 July in New York City. Between 1849 and 1861, Charles Dickens' prolific creative"
"each other, while Charlotte was excluded from their privacy. Around this time she had written one of her most famous poems ""No coward soul is mine"", probably as an answer to the violation of her privacy and her own transformation into a published writer. Despite Charlotte's later claim, it was not her last poem. In 1846, the sisters' poems were published in one volume as ""Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell"". The Brontë sisters had adopted pseudonyms for publication, preserving their initials: Charlotte was ""Currer Bell"", Emily was ""Ellis Bell"" and Anne was ""Acton Bell"". Charlotte wrote in the"
"Villette (novel) Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance. ""Villette"" was Charlotte Brontë's third and last novel; it was preceded by ""The Professor"" (her posthumously published first novel, of which ""Villette"" is a reworking), ""Jane Eyre"", and ""Shirley"". In 1842 Charlotte Brontë, at the age of 26, travelled to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister Emily. There they enrolled in a ""pensionnat"""
"failed to attract pupils. Instead they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Her first novel ""The Professor"" was rejected by publishers, her second novel ""Jane Eyre"" was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles. Brontë experienced the early deaths of all her siblings. She became pregnant shortly after her marriage in June 1854 but died on 31 March 1855 of tuberculosis or possibly typhus. Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April"
"and loved the place. A number of locations in Scarborough were the setting for ""Agnes Grey""'s final scenes and for Linden-Car village in ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". Whilst working for the Robinsons, Anne and her sisters considered the possibility of setting up a school. Various locations including the parsonage were considered. The project never materialised and Anne chose to return to Thorp Green. She came home on the death of her aunt in early November 1842 while her sisters were in Brussels. Elizabeth Branwell left a £350 legacy (equivalent to £ in ) for each of her nieces. It"
"Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym ""Ellis Bell"". It was written between October 1845 and June 1846. ""Wuthering Heights"" and Anne Brontë's ""Agnes Grey"" were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel ""Jane Eyre"". After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of ""Wuthering Heights"" and arranged for the edited version to be published as a posthumous second edition in 1850. Although ""Wuthering Heights"" is now a classic of English literature, contemporary reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of"
"she did not want to leave her ageing father. Thackeray's daughter, writer Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, recalled a visit to her father by Brontë: Brontë's friendship with Elizabeth Gaskell, while not particularly close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote the first biography of Brontë after her death in 1855. Brontë's third novel, the last published in her lifetime, was ""Villette"", which appeared in 1853. Its main themes include isolation, how such a condition can be borne, and the internal conflict brought about by social repression of individual desire. Its main character, Lucy Snowe, travels abroad to teach in a boarding"
"The pseudonyms veiled the sisters' sex while preserving their initials; thus Charlotte was Currer Bell. ""Bell"" was the middle name of Haworth's curate, Arthur Bell Nicholls whom Charlotte later married, and ""Currer"" was the surname of Frances Mary Richardson Currer who had funded their school (and maybe their father). Of the decision to use ""noms de plume"", Charlotte wrote: Although only two copies of the collection of poems were sold, the sisters continued writing for publication and began their first novels, continuing to use their ""noms de plume"" when sending manuscripts to potential publishers. Brontë's first manuscript, ""The Professor"", did"