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A review by yosquish
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
4.0
Did Anne Bronte write the first incel character in English literature?
This was a rough read, but I'm glad I did it. I can see why publishers in Bronte's time and thereafter, until recently, have censored this book down to almost nothing. How many young women might've been spared a similar misery in their own lives had they been exposed to the full brunt of this cautionary tale. Had the publisher's concerns about their "feminine sensibilities" not been so overbearing.
Or as Anne wrote herself: “Oh reader! If there were less of this delicate concealing of facts – this whispering, ‘Peace, peace’ when there is no peace – there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.”
This was a rough read, but I'm glad I did it. I can see why publishers in Bronte's time and thereafter, until recently, have censored this book down to almost nothing. How many young women might've been spared a similar misery in their own lives had they been exposed to the full brunt of this cautionary tale. Had the publisher's concerns about their "feminine sensibilities" not been so overbearing.
Or as Anne wrote herself: “Oh reader! If there were less of this delicate concealing of facts – this whispering, ‘Peace, peace’ when there is no peace – there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.”