I thought I would read Anne Brontë before reading Charlotte Brontë; Why? Because I didn’t want to go with the most popular of the three; before exploring Anne and Emily. I loved Wuthering Heights for its unexpected story, with The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, I was secretly hoping from more of that. But instead I was presented with a book that while it with very much a Victorian novel; it did push topics, like Divorce, Abuse, Alcoholism, Feminism, Adultery and many more issues to do with morels.

I’ve heard this to be one of the better books on Marriage, Love, Social Realism, Piety, Alcoholism, Status and identity of its time and while I do agree. I sometimes felt as if the story dragged on more than it really had to. I know many books in the 1800’s like to go off in many directions without moving the story forward, and I’m fine with that; if the story was interesting and the plot wasn’t predictable. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a beautifully written book and I highly recommend it to everyone, I just think predictability stopped me from loving this book.