The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Austen's style, but "with less of that particular quality which her dialogues invariably possessed". Considering the novels structure as "faulty", "Examiner" concludes that "it is scarcely possible to analyze [the novel]". An American magazine "Literature World", believing all the novels by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell were produced by the same person, praised their author as a genius, who can make "his incongruities appear natural". Noting, that "all that is good or attractive about [the male characters in "The Tenant"] is or might be womanish" it supposes that the author may be "some gifted and retired woman". Despite considering "The
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall slammed it in the face of society and all existing moralities and conventions," considered that she "had no genius." Despite that, her opinion about "The Tenant" was unexpectedly high: "There are scenes, there are situations, in Anne's amazing novel, which for sheer audacity stand alone in mid-Victorian literature, and which would hold their own in the literature of revolt that followed... Her diagnosis of certain states, her realization of certain motives, suggests Balzac rather than any of the Brontës." In her introduction to the 1914 edition of the novel Sinclair was also ambivalent about Anne and her novel — while