![]() ![]() Victorian critics called Tenant “disgusting,” “revolting,” and “brutal ” too coarse to be truly great art in the way that Jane Eyre was. ![]() ![]() As the critic Marianne Thormählen noted in 2018, Tenant is in the odd position of never having been quite right for its time: too shocking in its uncensored treatment of domestic abuse and addiction for the 19th century, and too didactic and moralizing in its condemnation of both for the 20th century. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, out now in a new edition from the Folio Society, tells the story of Helen Huntingdon and her ill-fated marriage to an abusive alcoholic. ![]() Now, they’re wondering if Anne might have been the most radical Brontë of all - and if the second of her two books, 1848’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, might be one of the first truly feminist novels. But her bicentennial came at a transitional moment in Brontë studies, because the consensus on Anne is changing.Īlthough Anne Brontë has traditionally been considered a much less interesting writer than her sisters Charlotte ( Jane Eyre) and Emily ( Wuthering Heights), over the past few decades, critics have started to change their minds. January 17, 2020, was the 200th anniversary of Anne Brontë’s birth: neglected Anne, forgotten Anne, Anne who is the least famous sister in a family of celebrated geniuses. ![]()
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