In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë chronicles the disillusionment, heartbreak, and final devastation of an intelligent woman who falls in love with a rake. She flees her disastrous marriage and sets up as a professional artista highly unusual and daring step for a woman of her time. Brontës message remains relevant in a time when the dangerous lovernot unlike the dark and mesmerizing Heathcliff and Rochester respectively of Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Brontës Jane Eyrestill lurks in romance narratives, and the belief in the beautiful illusion of saving the lost soul through love retains its seductive power.
