Descrição Bold ... shocking. - The New York TimesAnne might have been the most radical Bront of all ... The Tenant of Wildfell Hall might be one of the first truly feminist novels. - VoxThe title of the first feminist novel has been awarded to other books, perhaps with less justice. - The GuardianWhen The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published in 1848, critics condemned its portrayal of male violence and alcoholic abuse, recommending that no woman should read it. Anne Bront was the author, and she saw review after review attacking her novel as too coarse. Crushing it further, her sister Charlotte wrote, at this I cannot wonder, the choice of subject was an entire mistake. And yet in recent decades, this work by the youngest Bront has taken its place alongside those of her sisters as one of the great novels in English, and perhaps the first feminist novel. Helen is beautiful, talented and eighteen when she meets, fall in love with and marries the handsome but dissolute Arthur Huntingdon against the advice of her family and friends. She soon discovers the real nature of her husband and finally is forced to abandon him to save herself and her child. She becomes the new tenant of Wildfell Hall. Everyone is thrilled to have someone new to talk about, but infuriated by the secrecy that surrounds her. Nasty rumours circulate. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Annes masterpiece, a wildly modern, daring, and provocative book, and one of the first feminist novels - attacking marriage laws, double standard of sexual morality and the education of men and women.The heart of this book is a portrait of a woman surviving and flourishing after abuse, and in that, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall feels unnervingly modern. It is fresh, shocking, and wholly new today, 200 years after the birth of its author. - VoxSo revolting are many of the scenes, so coarse and disgusting the language put into the mouths of some of the characters, that the reviewer to who
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