Penguin Classics: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Helen ‘Graham’ – exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter – has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen’s eloquent struggle for independence at a time when the law and society defined a married woman as her husband’s property.