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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë

Start date: January 1, 2018

Finish date: January 31, 2018

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May 24, 2019 Chrissie rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2019-read, classics, hf, victorian, england, religion, audible-us, feminism, love, long

This is a love story, a sad love story, and it is beautifully told. Exquisitely told.

The writing, particularly depictions of nature and feelings and thoughts, are lyrically expressed. Do lines such as these appeal to you?

“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”

There is a stunning metaphor drawn of a winter rose.

Individuals’ thoughts are extremely wel ...more

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Aug 21, 2009 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: victorians, read-2012, mtbr-challenge-2012, e-books, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, book-and-movie

This book is being discussed at Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die .

An amazing book and even progressive book written by one of the Bronte sisters telling the story of Helen Graham, the new tenant of Wildfell Hall and Gilbert Markham, her neighbor who is intrigued by her past.

Even if the story is told through letters, Bronte managed to keep the reader's full attention, in my opinion. ...more

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Jan 12, 2020 Karen rated it really liked it

Shelves: travel-2020, 1001

3.5 stars really. I liked the writing, and I can see how the subject matter certainly would have shocked people at the time it was published. I definitely saw the influence of Charlotte in this book.
My reason for not giving it a full 4 star sis that I felt that the middle portion of the book was too long.

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Oct 11, 2021 Martha rated it really liked it

Shelves: fall-2021

I was put off by the main character's piety, but overall thought this was a good story. ...more

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Sep 22, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, vic-lit, 1001-books

Up until this year I have failed to read any books by the Bronte sisters, and when I picked up Wuthering Heights I was blown away by the complex, intricate and beautiful story. It was not a romance novel, but so much more. It was a book that I loved and I was anxious to read more by the sisters. This one is my second Bronte read and unfortunately it did not enchant me.

I finished it a couple weeks ago, and if I had reviewed it immediately I would have given it four stars. But, I have found that m ...more

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