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Anne Bronte: Way Ahead of the Times

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971116
Author:Martie Zad

Tara Fitzgerald and Rupert Graves star in Anne Bronte's dramatic and controversial tale about a woman's right to independence and freedom from a horrible marriage, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."

The story, which shocked Victorian England when it was published in 1848, was presented on PBS's "Mobil Masterpiece Theater" by Boston's WGBH four weeks ago. It was rushed to video by Twentieth-Century Fox Home Entertainment to cash in on the recent resurgence in popularity of period dramas such as "Emma," "Pride & Prejudice," "Jane Eyre" and "Sense and Sensibility."

Fitzgerald plays Helen Graham, who ...

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