The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strongminded woman who keepsher own counsel. Helen Graham exiled with her child to the desolatemoorland mansion... » 

The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strongminded woman who keepsher own counsel. Helen Graham exiled with her child to the desolatemoorland mansion adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narratedby her neighbour Gilbert Markham and in the pages of her own diary the novelportrays Helens eloquent struggle for independence at a time when the law andsociety defined a married woman as her husbands property. «