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    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading)
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading)
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading)
    Audiobook15 hours

    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading)

    Written by Anne Brontë

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law. (Summary by Wikipedia)

    Cast:
    Gilbert Markham: DublinGothic
    Mrs. Markham: Anise
    Rose Markham: Tiffany Halla Colonna
    Fergus Markham: Max Körlinge
    Helen Graham: Amanda Friday
    Master Arthur Huntingdon: Grace
    Frederick Lawrence: Robert Hoffman
    Reverend Millward: Martin Geeson
    Eliza Millward/Narrator: Elizabeth Klett
    Mary Millward: Charlotte Duckett
    Jane Wilson: April Gonzales
    Mrs. Maxwell: Availle
    Mr. Boarham/Elderly Traveler: Ernst Pattynama
    Mr. Arthur Huntingdon: Chris Marcellus
    Annabella Wilmot: Arielle Lipshaw
    Mr. Maxwell/Servant: Ken Garrett
    Millicent Hargrave: Kristingj
    Lord Lowborough/Benson/Coachman: Algy Pug
    Mr. Grimsby/John/Traveler: Chuck Williamson
    Ralph Hattersley: Jason Mills
    Rachel: Bev J. Stevens
    Walter Hargrave: Noel Badrian
    Esther Hargrave: Beth Thomas
    Mrs. Hargrave/Old Woman: Rhonda Federman

    Audio edited by: Amanda Friday

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading)
    Author

    Anne Brontë

    Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was an English novelist and poet and the youngest of a trio of legendary writers who became known as "the Brontë sisters." Each of the three siblings managed to create novels that would become classics of English literature: Charlotte's "Jane Eyre," Emily's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall." The youngest of six children born to clergyman Patrick Brontë and his wife Maria, Anne was home-schooled after two of her older sisters died of tuberculosis which they were believed to have acquired while attending the Clergy Daughter's School. The four surviving siblings, Branwell, Emily, Anne and Charlotte, created an imaginary world called "Glass Town," and would each contribute poems, stories and geographical details of this mythical place to help them escape the difficulties and isolation of their childhood and this early, escapist writing would plant the seeds for their later literary success. At the time, the idea of publishing a female author was frowned upon, thus the sisters created a pseudonymous trio of brothers - Currer (Charlotte), Ellis (Emily) and Acton (Anne) Bell - in order to get their books into print. Anne actually completed two full novels during her brief career: "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," but the enjoyment of their literary success was short-lived. The family suffered the deaths of Branwell, Emily and Anne in just a few short months in late 1848/early 1949 (the latter two of tuberculosis) and Charlotte herself, while struggling through her first, difficult pregnancy, died in 1854 at the age of thirty-eight. Few families in history have produced as many literary powerhouses as the Brontë sisters and their works have been adapted numerous times for the stage and screen.

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