#so if anne bronte wants to have like...a symbolic 'fixing' of the helen/arthur dynamic then sure why not | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

fangirlinglikeabus · 6 months ago

Text

That pretty child is now a fine young man; he has realised his mother’s brightest expectations, and is at present residing in Grassdale Manor with his young wife—the merry little Helen Hattersley of yore.

shaking my head while reading the tenant of wildfell hall by anne bronte so people know i don't endorse the implicit restoration of the upper classes

#laura talks books #bronte blogging #the tenant of wildfell hall #wildfell weekly #listen i don't RESENT this ending. this book is So Much that i kind of feel helen deserves a win #so if anne bronte wants to have like...a symbolic 'fixing' of the helen/arthur dynamic then sure why not #equally i was talking to my dissertation supervisor last week about the permanent clarissa-caleb williams-tenant triangle that lives in #my brain and he said he thought i was probably right that this book has a happy ending because anne bronte is more radical than richardson #(in that she believes that enacting change in the mortal world is vital necessary and possible if women take radical actions)#and less so than godwin (who doesn't believe that this change can be effectively enacted at ALL within the system if you engage with the #same system to do it)#godwin's an anarchist though so it's very rare you come across other 18th/19th century authors as radical as he is sdkjfnsk

4 notes · View notes