The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Helen admits she shelters her little Arthur from the harsh realities of the world, but she says she does so to preserve the boy’s character. Helen and Gilbert meet for the first time at tea at Linden-Car Farm and spar over how best to raise a child. The assembled company agrees, and only Frederick Lawrence defends her.

The Reverend Millward argues that she should trust in God and consume wine and beer in moderate amounts. She is vehemently against drink of all kinds. Helen is not there, and talk eventually turns to her unusual stance on the consumption of alcohol. Markham hosts a party soon afterward, and the major players in Gilbert’s story are all in attendance-Rose and Fergus Markham the Wilson family, including the materialistic Jane Eliza Millward, her sister, Mary, and father, the Reverend Michael Millward and Frederick Lawrence, a wealthy young man and Helen’s landlord at Wildfell Hall. When Gilbert sees her in church the following Sunday, he thinks her beautiful but stern, not nearly as attractive as Eliza Millward, with whom he has an on-going but not necessarily serious flirtation. Everything about Helen Graham is intriguing to the villagers of Linden-Car. One day in autumn, Rose tells the family about a new arrival in the village, a young mother in mourning named Helen Graham, who has moved into the gloomy Victorian mansion of Wildfell Hall with her five-year-old son and an elderly female servant. Markham, his sister, Rose, and younger brother, Fergus. Gilbert writes of his years living on Linden-Car Farm with his mother, Mrs. The letter comprises the first half of the novel.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall begins with a gentleman farmer, Gilbert Markham, promising his brother-in-law, Jack Halford, a letter detailing Gilbert’s youthful exploits.

The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë