This volume completes the acclaimed Clarendon Edition of the Novels
of the Brontes. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte's second
(and last) novel, was published in June 1848, less than a year
before her death. It is the sombre account of the breakdown of a
marriage in the face of alcoholism and infidelity. Writing with a
power not usually associated with the youngest of the Bronte
sisters, Anne portrays the decline of an aristocratic husband whose
drunken excesses and domestic violence force his loving wife into a
reluctant rebellion. The novel enjoyed a modest success that led
its publisher, the unscrupulous T. C. Newby, to issue a `Second
Edition' less than two months later. The present volume offers a
text based on the collation of the first edition with the second
(really a re-issue of the first, with a few corrections). The
introduction details the work's composition and early printing
history, including its first publication in America; and the text
is fully annotated. Appendices record the substantive variants in
the first English and American editions, and discuss the author's
belief in the doctrine of universal salvation.
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