#the tenant of wildfell hall
When a man writes something, it’s what he’s written that’s judged. When a woman writes something, it’s her that’s judged.
To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters (2016, dir. Sally Wainwright)
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Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham, Tara Fitzgerald as Helen Huntingdon and Rupert Graves as Arthur Huntingdon in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996).
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“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
