The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and its power of pleasing must be regarded, as well as its mere capabilities of force or effect. It is not only the subject of this novel, however, that is objectionable, but the manner of treating it. There is a coarseness of tone throughout the writing of all these Bells [Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë], that puts an offensive subject in its worst point of view, and which generally contrives to dash indifferent things". A critic in "Athenaeum", probably H. F. Chorley, cited "The Tenant" as "the most entertaining novel we have read in a month past". However, he warned
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