The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

I hadn’t read a novel by any other Bronte (besides Charlotte) so I decided to pick this one up. I was not disappointed. I loved this one. I have a huge project due at the end of the week but I still stayed up till 1:30 reading it. I get kind of obsessed when I read. Well it was worth it. The writing was engaging, the characters humanly flawed and really believable. I read a second edition print which was prefaced by the author who at the time was writing with a pseudonym of Acton Bell. The author tells how she was abused by her critics for being too hard on men. She admits that she was hard on them, but justly so, it was her hope to write a novel that was challenging, she did it well. I imagine her novel was very scandalous at the time of writing. It just makes me realize how much we as women take our freedom for granted. We owe a lot to women like the Brontes for paving the way.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Oxford World’s Classics)

Herbert Rosengarten (Editor). Oxford University Press, USA 1998, Paperback, 520 pages, $5.38