Course Overview
This day school explores Anne Brontë’s radical critique of 19th-century marriage laws. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) brings both Brontë family troubles and the trope of the Byronic hero to bear upon the contemporary position of women. We will examine how realism, symbolism and narrative voice all build a powerful warning about female dispossession, and make a strident plea for artistic, personal and social autonomy – an appeal that is still relevant today.
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