Gosh some difficult choices to make! So glad kitty came to say hello! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is not an easy read. I have the series on DVD which is nice and atmospheric and I also listened to it as an audio book. However the book itself did tend to wear me down. I wanted to shake Helen Graham by the shoulders as I could not understand her overly devote nature, especially when it came to her decision to return to her prior home to undertake what she felt was her 'duty'. Yet there are strengths in this book, the realism of how gender roles played out. How appallingly spoilt boys and young men were and how ignored young women were. However much we feel there is something 'romantic' about those days in truth owning nothing which is what amounted to a woman's life must have been pretty dire. Also Charlotte Bronte whose work I really love as a person annoys me a bit because she was either protecting or embarrassed by her sister's works. I hadn't realized that Charlotte had not allowed 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' to be published until after Anne's death! Charlotte also didn't like 'Wuthering Heights' which is hardly surprising because everyone in the book is really unlikeable, yet it is also a masterpiece especially as it was written by a young woman who had no experience of love or romance or so we are told. I believe Branwell appears in all of the sister's books as the unpleasant and violent character who set out to destroy the peace and harmony that could have existed both in his own life and in how the novels develop. However without him perhaps the Bronte's would never have written those incredible books! Have a great trip!!
@@carolinesimmill4962 wow! you’ve given me a lot of information i didn’t know! thank you :) it’s so interesting to read the writer’s works and then to read about them as people and their lives… one always tends to influence the other. have a great week!
Gosh some difficult choices to make! So glad kitty came to say hello! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is not an easy read. I have the series on DVD which is nice and atmospheric and I also listened to it as an audio book. However the book itself did tend to wear me down. I wanted to shake Helen Graham by the shoulders as I could not understand her overly devote nature, especially when it came to her decision to return to her prior home to undertake what she felt was her 'duty'. Yet there are strengths in this book, the realism of how gender roles played out. How appallingly spoilt boys and young men were and how ignored young women were. However much we feel there is something 'romantic' about those days in truth owning nothing which is what amounted to a woman's life must have been pretty dire. Also Charlotte Bronte whose work I really love as a person annoys me a bit because she was either protecting or embarrassed by her sister's works. I hadn't realized that Charlotte had not allowed 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' to be published until after Anne's death! Charlotte also didn't like 'Wuthering Heights' which is hardly surprising because everyone in the book is really unlikeable, yet it is also a masterpiece especially as it was written by a young woman who had no experience of love or romance or so we are told. I believe Branwell appears in all of the sister's books as the unpleasant and violent character who set out to destroy the peace and harmony that could have existed both in his own life and in how the novels develop. However without him perhaps the Bronte's would never have written those incredible books! Have a great trip!!
@@carolinesimmill4962 wow! you’ve given me a lot of information i didn’t know! thank you :) it’s so interesting to read the writer’s works and then to read about them as people and their lives… one always tends to influence the other. have a great week!