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Set in Yorkshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, this novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the government and an inadequate Church.
Textile industry --- Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 --- Women --- Yorkshire (England) --- Yorkshire, Eng. --- Yorkshire --- York (England : County) --- Social life and customs
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Anne Bront--euml--;'s second novel seemed to many contemporary readers shockingly unlike her first Agnes Grey, published in the previous year. There, Charlotte Bront--euml--; had admired her sister's `quiet description and simple pathos', but she was disturbed by The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which reminded reviewers of Wuthering Heights: it was, in spite of its `excellent moral', `coarse, not to say brutal'. For Anne's heroine, Helen Huntingdon, having enduredtoo many of the `revolting scenes' deplored by reviewers, leaves her dissolute husband in order to earn her own living and rescue her so
Landlord and tenant --- Married women --- Alcoholism --- Addiction to alcohol --- Alcohol abuse --- Alcohol intoxication --- Dipsomania --- Drinking problem --- Drunkenness --- Inebriety --- Intemperance --- Intoxication --- Jellinek's disease --- Liquor problem --- Substance abuse --- Temperance --- Controlled drinking --- Drinking of alcoholic beverages --- Married people --- Women --- Wives --- Tenants --- Apartment houses --- Commercial law --- Housing management --- Land tenure --- Possessory interests in land --- Real property --- Distress (Law) --- Farm tenancy --- Leases --- Rent --- Waste (Law) --- Law and legislation --- England --- Social life and customs --- Intoxication, Alcohol
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This work features the definitive Clarendon edition of 'Villette', which is sourced from the earliest printings of Bronte's work. The text is supplemented with a commissioned introduction, which gives a thorough and in-depth analysis of the context.
Belgium --- Social life and customs --- British --- Separation (Psychology) --- Women teachers --- Brussels (Belgium)
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