Grimsby/John/Traveler: Chuck Williamsonįor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. Lord Lowborough/Benson/Coachman: Algy Pug Boarham/Elderly Traveler: Ernst Pattynama Although The Tenant of Wildfell Hall implies a firm stance against mistaken ideas of male and female education, it is equally concerned to dramatize the errors of its heroine Helen Huntingdon and her hard-won capacity to learn from them. In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation.

In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. Anne Brontë Edited by Herbert Rosengarten and with an Introduction by Josephine McDonagh Oxford Worlds Classics A new edition of Anne Brontës compelling novel about the destructive consequences of alcoholism on a marriage, featuring a wide-ranging new introduction, and up-to-date editorial material. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Read by a full cast.Ī mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. LibriVox recording of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte.

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