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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

4.07 AVERAGE

adelenc's review

4.5

hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lollykatie's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Brave strong main character. Exposes society's injustice to women and how gossip and bigotry can destroy. And how selfish and weak men treat their families. (Well they're all jerks pretty much)

shelvedbyelle's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

it's true what they say over on booktok: it's so ahead of its time and deeply feminist. while Charlotte and Emily took a more romantic approach in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Anne was a realist. yet of the three, i find this novel the most fitting for a romance.

i love the decisions Helen took for herself. she raised little Arthur with care, taking painstaking measures to ensure he wouldn’t emulate his father’s ways and she had the strength to escape rather than stay in a toxic marriage. (though i didn’t quite approve of her decision to return to her husband to care for him.)

Mr. Markham is a genuinely likeable character with real development unlike Mr. Rochester or Heathcliff. he didn’t care that Helen had a child, sought the truth when everyone gossiped that she had abandoned her husband and waited for her.

i also liked the other women—Helen’s aunt, Millicent and Esther—and how their relationships with Helen added depth to the story. it's a happy ending, and rightfully so.

no wonder it stirred controversy in the Victorian era. i just wish Anne had lived to see her story gain the same level of fame as her sisters’ works. this book has only made me even more excited to read Agnes Grey.

aydow's review against another edition

3.75

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

glitterpricked's review against another edition

4.5

reflective slow-paced

I usually have a lot to say about books (or at least I try to), but for some reason I can't think of much to say about this. I really enjoyed it! Is that enough? The rest of the review will just be copied from what I wrote in my journal.

So captivating! The drama and tension were really engrossing! I wasn't expecting the narrator to be out of the narrative for so long though, but it was a bit of a relief because the neighbourhood dynamics were getting a little dull. I really want to reread Agnes Grey now, because in my head it was quite different from this, though I might be wrong. It was just a very interesting read!

ladyselena's review against another edition

2.0

Apparently I read this before. I don’t remember. Probably because I don’t like it.
I find the whole story depressing. The heroine too determined to keep suffering, even in her exile. The hero… well… better than the villain, but only because that one set the bar so low.
Not to be repeated again.