Publication |
London, Wordsworth Editions, 1994.
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Description |
xxvi, 394pBlue Spine
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Series |
Wordsworth Classics
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Summary/Abstract |
The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when the law and society defined a married woman as her husband's property.
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Standard Number |
9781853264887 Pb.
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