Agnes Grey By Anne Brontë
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is told in epistolary form, as a letter from Mr. Gilbert Markham to his friend Mr. Halford, but also contains a long diary entry within this letter. In the letter Markham is recounting how he came to meet Mrs. Helen Huntingdon, the new tenant at Wildfell Hall, his growing love for her after much abasement, and how he learns of her life before she came to be living there, which she recounts to him through her diary entries. Helen grew up with her aunt and uncle, meets a dashing young gentleman named Arthur Huntingdon at a party. Everyone warns her of his lascivious ways, but she believes that if she marries him she could change him and make him live a Christian life. Ahh, girls. I kept wanting to scream, "You can't change people, Helen! Don't do it!." But she does it. He takes a fancy to her, proposes, and she accepts against her aunt's wishes. Afterward, they move to his home, Grassdale Manor...