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Title: The Tenant of Wildfell HallAuthor: Anne Brontë
Published: 1848
Language: English
Pages: 524
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Running away from a disastrous marriage, a woman moves in to Wildfell Hall and struggles for independence.
Review:
After having read books by both Charlotte and Emily Brontë, I felt like I should read something by Anne as well and I'm so glad I did; this was fantastic!
I was surprised by how hard-hitting some of the things in this book were; it deals with female independence, alcoholism and abuse in a much more straight forward way than a lot of other classics. I sometimes find older books skirt around these issues or they get really vague (probably because those things were terribly shocking back in the day) but this felt like it faced it a little more head on.
I really loved reading about the characters in here, I thought they were fascinating, and I especially loved when we got to read from the perspective of our female protagonist. I didn't find the language all that difficult to deal with, as I sometimes do with classics, although I did think the story definitely dragged in some parts and there were moments were I felt like this book was just too long.
Overall though, I very much enjoyed this! Definitely worth picking up if you think the storyline sounds intriguing.
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