The Tenant of Wildfell Hall universal salvation for all souls. She does not reassure the elder Arthur about this on his deathbed because she wants him to repent of his wrongdoing on his own accord. Despite his inability to do so, Helen still believes in his redemption. Unlike her elder sisters, Anne Brontë did not follow the Romantic style in her two novels, opting instead for Realism. Many critics, including Anne's sister Charlotte, considered her depiction of alcoholism and adultery overly graphic and disturbing. In defence, Anne openly stated her writer’s intentions in the preface to the second edition of the novel. Often, when depicting
Culture of Yorkshire Amongst the most noted novels credited to the sisters are Anne's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall", Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" and Emily's "Wuthering Heights". Ted Hughes wrote two collections that show his love for Yorkshire: "Remains of Elmet" (1979) and "Elmet" (1994), in which the ghost of Emily Brontë still haunts the moor. In the present day, the most prominent Yorkshire presences in English literature are the playwright, author, actor, screenwriter and commentator Alan Bennett, born 1934 in Leeds, where much of his work is set, and the poet, playwright and screenwriter Tony Harrison, born three years later in the same