Her strict seclusion soon gives rise to gossip in the neighbouring village and she becomes a social outcast. Contrary to the early 19th century norms, she pursues an artist's career and makes an income by selling her pictures. The novel is framed as a series of letters from Gilbert Markham to his friend about the events connected with his meeting a mysterious young widow, calling herself Helen Graham, who arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and a servant. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall at Wikisource
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