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Wildfell Hall and the artist as a young woman.

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From: West Virginia University Philological Papers
Date: 20010922
Author:Shaw, Karen L.

In 1848, Anne Bronte produced one of the Victorian period's few Kunstlerromane written by a woman, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The novel unfolds as a framed narrative: the outer panels related by Gilbert Markham, the inner panel related by Helen Huntingdon. Markham tells the story of the arrival of a mysterious young widow, Helen Graham, and the subsequent growth of his affection for her, ending with their marriage in the final panel. In the form of her journal, Helen Huntingdon tells the story of her previous existence, the story of a young woman whose artistic abilities provide ...

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