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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë · 1848

535 pages

A young widow, Helen Graham, moves into the half-ruined Wildfell Hall and keeps to herself, refusing to explain her past. The farmer Gilbert Markham falls for her, then hears rumours about her and her son. Helen's hidden diary slowly reveals the marriage she fled and why she lives in hiding.

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Gothic, Gothic Manor, Forbidden Love, Slow Burn, Outcast Hero

Content warnings: abuse

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