With an Afterword by Kathryn White The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of few nineteenth-century novels to address alcoholism, psychological abuse, violence and the inequality of womens property rights. In a powerful psychological narrative, Anne Brontë tells the strange tale of the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Graham, the mysterious tenant of Wildfell Hall. When it was first published in 1848, Anne Brontës second novel was attacked by the Spectator for its morbid love of the coarse, if not the brutal. In her defence, Anne stated that she wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it. Annes own sister Charlotte considered the novel an entire mistake, and after Annes death in 1849 she suppressed any further editions, wishing to protect her reputation from accusations of immorality. Anne Brontë challenges the reader, proving that she is a novelist in her own right and not just of interest as the youngest sister of the better known authors Charlotte and Emily.