The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (In Our Time)
1848 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's second novel, published in 1848, which is now celebrated alongside those of her sisters but which Charlotte Bronte tried to suppress as a 'mistake'. It examines the life of Helen, who has escaped her abusive husband Arthur Huntingdon with their son to live at Wildfell Hall as a widow under the alias 'Mrs Graham', and it exposes the men in her husband's circle who gave her no choice but to flee.
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Around 1848
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- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)