Growing up, Anne was closest to her sister Emily, and together they made up stories about the imaginary land of Gondal. The two eldest daughters, Maria and Elizabeth, died when Anne was only four. She and Anne were particularly close as Aunt Branwell was effectively the only mother the girl remembered having. Their aunt, Elizabeth Branwell, came to live with the family and cared for the children. Brontë's mother died before her youngest daughter was two years old. She was born in the village of Thornton in West Yorkshire, England, but the family moved to Haworth just a few months later so that her father could take a higher paying position as the local parson. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYĪnne Brontë was born January 17, 1820, the sixth and last child of Patrick and Maria Branwell Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has interest for readers in the early 2000s because of its insight into the historical roles of men and women and for the ways it illustrates how marriage has changed and how some things-such as domestic abuse-have not. Some considered the novel unfit for women to read. Critics then and later criticized the uneven characterization, but it was Brontë's progressive ideas about the rights of women that caused an uproar in the mid-1800s. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a wildly popular and controversial novel when it was published in 1848.

Brontë's use of realism-unlike the gothic romances of Charlotte and Emily-was a precursor to the literary traditions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brontë is the youngest sister of the famous Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë and although her poetry and novels have never received the same attention, she was arguably the pioneer of her family. It tells the story of a young wife during the Regency period in England (1800-1830) who runs away from her drunken, adulterous, verbally abusive husband, an act virtually unheard of at this time in history.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë, is one of the first modern feminist novels.

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