Information about the Author
Anne Brontë (1820-1849) was the youngest member of the Brontë family. She was educated at home in the Yorkshire village of Howarth and later held two positions as a governess, challenging experiences that inspired her first novel, Agnes Grey, in 1847. This was followed by The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in 1848. Anne died in 1849 at the age of twenty-nine from tuberculosis.

Stevie Davies (Introduction and Notes), who hails from Morriston, Swansea, is a novelist, literary critic, biographer, and historian. She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Academi Gymreig, and a professor of creative writing at the University of Wales in Swansea.

Summary
Gilbert Markham is deeply fascinated by Helen Graham, a beautiful and mysterious young woman who has moved into the nearby Wildfell Hall.