The young farmer Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the reserved artist who has moved with her small son into the half-ruined Wildfell Hall and set the neighbourhood gossiping. Her journal, which makes up the heart of the book, tells what she escaped: marriage to the charming, dissolute Arthur Huntingdon and years of drink, cruelty and fear. This edition includes an introduction by Mrs Humphry Ward.
Anne Brontë’s frank and courageous second novel, a defence of a wife’s right to leave that shocked its first readers. Download the free EPUB.