chandraleereads 's review for:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

4.0

mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Anne is as serious and religiously focused as her sister Charlotte. However, I like her characters more AND she seems to have an audacity that her sister did not possess, and that I much appreciate. (I have yet to read anything by their sister Emily so I don’t know how she compares.) While reading The Tenant or Wildfell Hall I had some delight in imaging the scandal the book stirred. I found one quote that seemed to confirm my feelings: May Sinclair, in 1913, said “the slamming of [Helen’s] bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England”.