The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968 miniseries) victim of local slander. Only young farmer, Gilbert Markham, is compassionate toward her. For a full length summary see: "The Tenant of WIldfell Hall" plot summary. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968 miniseries) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the first adaptation of Anne Brontë's novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Peter Sasdy. The serial stars Janet Munro as Helen Graham, Bryan Marshall as Gilbert Markham and Corin Redgrave as her spoiled and drunkard husband Arthur Huntington. A mysterious young woman arrives with her young son at Wildfell Hall, a nearby old mansion. She is
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall adherence to the diaries may be considered as a 'testimony of experience'. Since the Renaissance writing a diary had been a popular form of documenting and expressing personal opinions. Naomi Jacobs argues that "the displacement [of framing narration by the inner] is exactly the point of the novel, which subjects its readers to a shouldering-aside of familiar notions and comfortable perceptions of the world", and both narrations and jarring discrepancies of tone and perspective between them are essential to the purpose. In "The Tenant", like in "Wuthering Heights", a horrific reality of private life is obtained after passing through the