mianderingbard 's review for:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

3.0

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I was in the middle of Middlemarch when the power went out and my phone died—and I faced the most boring day I’d had all year, lockdown included. Since I was in the 19th century in my mind I wanted to read something similar, by another woman, and chose Anne Bronte though I almost did not because I knew the melancholy drama would be a far cry from Middlemarch. And then after gently drifting through the latter for some weeks, I read this book in one day.
Even though it IS fairly dramatic, it is also heart wrenching, and both books deal with the simple reality of dastardly men and their human (as opposed to angelic) wives.

All in all, I enjoyed this quite a bit though ‘enjoyed’ isn’t the word I should use (I especially felt for poor Millicent). I should read through my sister’s whole Bronte collection now, for though I’ve read Wuthering Heights and it got under my skin (and not in the best way) I haven’t read an unabridged Jane Eyre yet!