Author(s): Anne Bronte

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Fleeing a disastrous marriage, Helen Huntingdon retreats to the desolate mansion, Wildfell Hall, with her son, Arthur. There, she makes her living as a painter. Finding it difficult to avoid her neighbors, she is soon an object of speculation and gossip. Bront� portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when society defined a married woman as her husband's property.