The diary continues detailing Helen’s life with an emotional, abusive husband, who drinks, gambles, and frequently leaves her for several weeks at a time while he is unfaithful. Helen would have persevered alone, but she could not allow her son to become like his father. When Gilbert reads her diary, it seems Helen has fled her marriage from an abusive, alcoholic husband and taken her son away from his bad influences. His persistence finally leads Helen to hand him her diary, and she says, “Bring it back when you have read it and don’t breathe a word of what it tells you to any living being-I trust to your honour.” Helen is very isolated and secretive, which makes her gossip for the locals. Gilbert encounters her on a walk with his dog one day, and over a period of time Helen and Gilbert become friends while he falls desperately in love with her. Helen, however, only seems to care for her son and fervently resists Gilbert’s efforts toward a closer relationship. Presumably a widow, Helen Graham is living with only one servant and her son. Gilbert Markham to his brother-in-law, the book tell us the narrative of Gilbert meeting a mysterious woman with a young son who has moved into a dilapidated mansion called Wildfell Hall. Beginning as a series of letters written by Mr. The setting of Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a rural community near West Yorkshire, England in the mid-1800s.
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