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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
I have finally read something by Anne Brontë, and I regret taking so long. This novel is arguably more progressively feminist than any of her sisters'. Though the start felt slow, I became riveted about a third of the way through and gobbled up the remaining pages in all my spare time. It's been a while since I've been so invested in characters that I felt antsy to know how their stories would end. Gilbert Markham is less likable than Helen Graham, but the latter is so deeply wonderful as a character that it makes up for the lack of any romantically-desirable males in the book. Through Helen's marriage, Anne paints a vivid and uncomfortable inside look at an abusive relationship. I wish Helen would have drawn stronger boundaries once she saw him for what he was (arguably borderline?), but even the little that she did was shocking at the time.