"he sees as ""a reversal of the process carries on in ""Jane Eyre"""", but Arthur Huntingdon, in his opinion, is ""no Rochester"". ""He is never virtuously inclined, except in those periods of illness and feebleness which his debaucheries have occasioned"". Whipple concludes: ""The reader of Acton Bell gains no enlarged view of mankind, giving a healthy action to his sympathies, but is confined to a narrow space of life, and held down, as it were, by main force, to witness the wolfish side of his nature literally and logically set forth. But the criminal courts are not the places in"
"Purefoy starred in the second version, made in 1996. The novel was adapted as a three-act opera at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with music composed by Garrett Hope and libretto by Steven Soebbing. The University of British Columbia adaptation of ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" premiered in October 2015, adapted by Jacqueline Firkins and directed by Sarah Rogers. In 2017 the novel was adapted by Deborah McAndrew and directed by Elizabeth Newman. The production opened in the Octagon Theatre, Bolton and then moved into York Theatre Royal. In the ""Downton Abbey"" Christmas special (2011) ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is"
"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"
"teaching at King's College London in 1973, was elevated to reader in 1986 and then promoted to Professor of English Literature in 1998. In 1994 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. David Nokes David Nokes FRSL (March 11, 1948 - November 19, 2009) was a scholar of 18th-century English literature known for his biographies of Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. He also penned screenplays, including a BBC adaptation of Samuel Richardson's novel ""Clarissa"" (1991) and an adaptation of Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1996). He was also a leading"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"David Nokes David Nokes FRSL (March 11, 1948 - November 19, 2009) was a scholar of 18th-century English literature known for his biographies of Jonathan Swift, John Gay, Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. He also penned screenplays, including a BBC adaptation of Samuel Richardson's novel ""Clarissa"" (1991) and an adaptation of Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (1996). He was also a leading reviewer for The Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. Nokes attended King's College School, Wimbledon, London. He received an MA from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1974. He started"
"of poetry with her sisters (""Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell"", 1846) and two novels. ""Agnes Grey"", based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", which is considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels, appeared in 1848. Like her poems, both her novels were first published under the masculine pen name of Acton Bell. Anne's life was cut short when she died of what is now suspected to be pulmonary tuberculosis at the age of 29. Partly because the re-publication of ""The Tenant"
"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,"
"of the earth, the skies and the hearts, are strange and often possessed of unheard of violence and deprivations. The story is told in a scholarly fashion, with two narrators, the traveller and tenant Lockwood, and the housekeeper/governess, Nelly Dean, with two sections in the first person, one direct, one cloaked, which overlap each other with digressions and sub-plots that form, from apparently scattered fragments, a coherently locked unit. One year before her death in May 1849, Anne published a second novel. Far more ambitious than her previous novel, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" was a great success and rapidly"
"lecherous, violent, and alcoholic. She is forced to break with the conventions that keep her in the family home that has become hell, and to leave with her child to seek secret refuge in the old house of Wildfell Hall. When the alcohol causes her husband's ultimate decline, she returns to care for him in total abnegation until his death. Today, ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is considered by most of the critics to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. Conditions at the school at Cowan Bridge, where Maria and Elizabeth may have contracted the tuberculosis from which"
"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"
"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"
"tenant, not an owner-occupier, of Wildfell Hall, the place of her birth, which was bequeathed to a male descendant, her brother. ""The Tenant"" features numerous allusions to a wide range of other texts, from the Bible to contemporary novels. Apart from being used as a quotation, allusions are often applied by peculiar characters to reflect their personalities. Sometimes the individual voices of characters are shown as a patchwork of quotations. Such ""borrowed voices"" may denote the displacement of the main heroes – Gilbert, being a well-educated man with high ambitions for some ""great achievements,"" is forced to take over his"
"after Emily's death, wrote: ""Curious enough is to read ""Wuthering Heights"" and ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", and remember that the writers were two retiring, solitary, consumptive girls! Books, coarse even for men, coarse in language and coarse in conception, the coarseness apparently of violence and uncultivated men – turn out to be the productions of two girls living almost alone, filling their loneliness with quiet studies, and writing their books from a sense of duty, hating the pictures they drew, yet drawing them with austere conscientiousness! There is matter here for the moralist or critic to speculate on"". The"
"to write; still less has it been a pleasant training which could teach an author such awful facts, or give courage to write them. The fault of the book is coarseness--not merely that coarseness of subject which will be the stumbling-block of most readers, and which makes it utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls..."" Despite this, he believed that: ""[English] society owes thanks, not sneers, to those who dare to shew her the image of her own ugly, hypocritical visage"". ""Spectator"" wrote: """"The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", like its predecessor [""Jane Eyre""], suggests the idea of"
"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"
"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"
"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),"
"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"
"""Paradise Lost"". Together with Byron, John Martin seems to have been one of the artistic influences essential to the Brontës' universe. The influence revealed by ""Agnes Grey"" and ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is much less clear. Anne's works are largely founded on her experience as a governess and on that of her brother's decline. Furthermore, they demonstrate her conviction, a legacy from her father, that books should provide moral education. This sense of moral duty and the need to record it, are more evident in ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". The influence of the gothic novels of Ann Radcliffe,"
"Thomas Hodgson issued a one-volume edition of ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". Hodgson performed extensive editing of the novel, removing many sections, including the chapter headings and the opening letter, that starts with: ""To J. Halford, Esq. Dear Halford, When we were together last..."" Other omissions ranged from single words to almost complete chapters (such as the 28th); some sections were completely rearranged in an attempt to compensate for the omissions. Most subsequent English editions, including those eventually produced by Charlotte's publisher, Smith, Elder & Co., followed this mutilated text. These copies are still prevalent today, despite notes on their"
"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"
"confidential talk]"", is also shown as folly when her husband confiscates the diary and reads its contents. ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" challenged the prevailing morals of the Victorian era. Especially shocking was Helen's slamming of her bedroom door in the face of her husband after continuing abuse. Charles Kingsley, in his review for ""Fraser's Magazine"" wrote: ""A people's novel of a very different school is ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". It is, taken altogether, a powerful and an interesting book. Not that it is a pleasant book to read, nor, as we fancy, has it been a pleasant book"
"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"
"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,"
"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"
"Hall (Fieldhead in ""Shirley""), Red House (Briarmains in ""Shirley""), and Gawthorpe Hall and Wycoller Hall (Ferndean Manor in ""Jane Eyre""). The film ""Brontë Country: The Story of the Emily, Charlotte & Anne Brontë"" discusses the area's geography and history, and the history of the Brontë family. Brontë Country Brontë Country is a name given to an area of south Pennine hills west of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England. The name comes from the Brontë sisters, who wrote such literary classics as ""Jane Eyre"" (Charlotte Brontë), ""Wuthering Heights"" (Emily Brontë), and ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" (Anne Brontë) while living in"
"UK. Her third novel ""The Stepmothers Support Group"" was published by HarperCollins in 2009 (""The Other Mothers Club"" / Avon / 2010 in the US). Her fourth novel, ""To My Best Friends"", was published by Harper in May 2011. In Spring 2016 she published ""The Woman Who Ran"", HarperCollins, a critically acclaimedreworking of Anne Brontë's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", described by Marian Keyes as, ‘Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book.' Baker also broadcasts on young women's issues. She lives in Winchester, Hampshire, and Paris with her partner, the novelist Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Baker has stated her"
"Wolf Hall Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family seat of Wolfhall or Wulfhall in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, ""Wolf Hall"" is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, ""The Observer"" named it as one of ""The 10 best historical novels"". The book is"
"life after leaving Arthur without a man's protection and supervision. Gilbert's mother, Mrs. Markham, holds the doctrine prevailing at the time that it is ""the husband's business to please himself, and hers [i.e. the wife's] to please him."" The portrayal of Helen, courageous and independent, emphasizes her capacity for seeking autonomy rather than submitting to male authority, and the corrective role of women in relation to men. ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"" is thus considered a feminist novel by many critics. Josephine McDonagh believes that the theme of displacement is underlined by the title of the novel: Helen is the"
"and a position first held by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The first volume of Pullman's trilogy ""The Book of Dust"" was published by Penguin Random House Children's and David Fickling in the UK and by Random House Children's in the US on 19 October 2017. The as-yet-unnamed second title in ""The Book of Dust"" will include a character named after Nur Huda el-Wahabi, a 16-year-old victim of London's tragic Grenfell Tower fire. As part of the charity auction Authors for Grenfell Tower, Pullman offered the highest bidder a chance to name a character in the upcoming trilogy. Ultimately, he raised £32,400"