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Novel · 1848

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

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Novel · 1848 · English · Victorian

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

Helen Graham's diary explains why she fled her marriage with her son.

Epistolary novelSocial fictionMarriageAbuseIndependence

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The framed diary corrects gossip with testimony. Its insistence on the practical right to leave gives the marriage plot a radical material dimension.

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