The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a present-day Yorkshire village. In "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" film adaptation, Juliet Ashton (Lily James), argues about the cultural significance of "The Tenant": "In "Wildfell Hall", Anne Brontë laid bare the essential imbalance of power between men and women in the suffocating hierarchical structure of Victorian marriage." According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term cardboard first appeared in "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall". Phrase "tied to the apron strings" was also coined in the novel: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel by the English author
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall tenant, not an owner-occupier, of Wildfell Hall, the place of her birth, which was bequeathed to a male descendant, her brother. "The Tenant" features numerous allusions to a wide range of other texts, from the Bible to contemporary novels. Apart from being used as a quotation, allusions are often applied by peculiar characters to reflect their personalities. Sometimes the individual voices of characters are shown as a patchwork of quotations. Such "borrowed voices" may denote the displacement of the main heroes – Gilbert, being a well-educated man with high ambitions for some "great achievements," is forced to take over his