i imagine victorian literature slowly sink into the mire of the increasingly distant past and pull down by the weight of it under skirt . along come television represent at it best and it have a redemptive power and and with dramatisation like those the bbc produce so finely and victorian literature get a new stab at life . the religious theme and the moral overtone and may be increasingly ill at ease in a world no longer easily shock and and acquaint with cohabitation and affair and domestic violence . but those old and well told story have endure power and and this be one a hidden gem . it hard to gauge today just how forceful and feminist and extraordinary ann bronte masterpiece and the tenant of wildfell hall and actually be . emerge from the primeval slime of restrictive corset bodily and mental and societal her heroine and helen huntingdon and escape a miserable marriage and flees brutality and alcoholism and brave not only her abusive husband fury and but society pinch intolerance and malicious gossip and to wreak change in her life . she pay a price while but retain her self respect while she fall in love along the way while she emerge batter but victorious and and strong . i just love watch woman like these on screen . the actor be superb the best brit have to offer . the love story be beautifully handle and with real passion and feeling by well match actor . tara fitzgerald inhabits every aspect of the complicated heroine and and as have be say here by other reviewer and no less sharply define and beautiful a face could survive that petrify hairstyle . toby stephen and strike spark off her and contribute just the right combination of headstrong and handsome youth and passionate and yearning vulnerability . rupert graf ( one of my favourite british actor ever ) enjoy himself a the charismatic villain ( so much so that youre almost with him at the end . no one perfect ) . the support cast ably create a world into which you sink without feel that coarse compromise have be make to modern taste and and without have felt preach to . another bbc classic and highly recommended represent this be how romantic literature should be dramatise .