Agnes Grey/The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, it tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title. With a child but no husband, Helen divides the community between those who admire her charm and spirit and those who suspect her morals. Chief among her supporters is a local farmer, Gilbert Markham, who tells her story. Written before The Tenant, Agnes Grey, based on the author's own experience, explores the position of women in Victorian society through the story of a young woman forced to work as a governess when her father is ruined financially.

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Anne Bront� (January 17, 1820 - May 28, 1849) novelist and poet, the youngest of the Bronte literary family. Anne's poetry was published, along with that of her sisters, in 1846, under the pseudonym "Acton Bell". Anne's major work is Agnes Grey, which was published 1847. INTRODUCER BIOGRAPHY: Lucy Hughes-Hallett is a cultural historian and critic. She is the author of Cleopatra: Queen, Lover, Legend and Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. She reviews regularly for the Sunday Times