![]() ![]() After Anne’s death, Charlotte Brontë refused to sanction a third edition of Wildfell Hall. The latter lets go, “roaring like a wild beast”, and collapses on to an ottoman from which he taunts and threatens his miserable wife, eventually staggering to his feet to knock her down.Īnne Brontë’s stature as a novelist would probably have been more readily recognised had she been born into another family, not only because she had two of English fiction’s most enduringly popular authors as in-house competitors, but because one of them did her utmost – out of a well-founded fear of public opprobrium – to downplay Anne’s achievement. Getting hold of a candle, he burns Hattersley’s hands with it. He struggles, pale with anger, to resist Hattersley’s proclaimed intent to make him drunk again. Mr Hattersley, his face purple, his laughter manic, has Lord Lowborough by the arm and is trying to drag him out of the drawing room. H ere’s a scene from Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. ![]()
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