DIVp"I no longer love my husband – I HATE him! The word stares at me in the face like a guilty confession"Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby...

Drawing on her own experiences, Anne Bronte wrote her first novel out of an urgent need to inform her contemporaries about the desperate position of unmarried educated women driven to take up the only 'respectable' career open to them...

This roman-a-clef is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Anne Bronte's life as a governess. In the novel, Agnes, a rector's daughter--like Anne and her sisters, Charlotte and Emily--describes the spoiled children of the Bloomfield fa...