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Hmm - I must confess I was disappointed by the book. The subject matter should have been powerful, given the appalling way in which some women were treated by their husbands, and their total lack of any rights at the time of the story. The Married Women’s Property Act did not come into law for many decades.
However, it struck me as being a misery memoir. Helen was too saintly to be credible, and I can’t understand what she sees in Gilbert.
Anne Brontė seems to me to be lacking much of the talent of her sisters, and I can understand why her books are so much less well known than those of Charlotte and Emily.
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