Librarian note: Alternate cover editions for ISBN 0140434747/9780140434743 are: Woman in white dress (with the title on white and black background), Woman at the easel on a black and blue background, and Furniture, easel and window. Anne Brontës second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflect Librarian note: Alternate cover editions for ISBN 0140434747/9780140434743 are: Woman in white dress (with the title on white and black background), Woman at the easel on a black and blue background, and Furniture, easel and window. Anne Brontës second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The heroine, Helen Huntingdon, after a short period of initial happiness, leaves her dissolute husband, and must earn her own living to rescue her son from his influence. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is compelling in its imaginative power, the realism and range of its dialogue, and its psychological insight into the characters involved in a marital battle.