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To Love and Protect: The Criminalization of Maternal Duty in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

In English

Författare

  • Nina Nolén

Summary, in English

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) can be read as a protofeminist text and a radical novel for its time, as it confronted the lack of maternal rights and protection for children. In this paper I discuss the portrayal of motherhood, and the factors that empower and restrict Helen. Using Sarah Lewis´s Woman´s Mission (1839) and her contemporary views of maternal duty, this paper explores the complexities of motherhood in 19th century England. Religion and the sense of duty Helen feels towards her son empowers her to break both conventions and the law. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall offers a raw picture of the realities of a woman imprisoned by marriage, doing everything in her power to save her son.

Publiceringsår

2025

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Examensarbete för kandidatexamen

Ämne

  • Languages and Literatures

Nyckelord

  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
  • Anne Brontë
  • Motherhood
  • Abuse
  • Protofeminism
  • Sarah Lewis

Handledare

  • Sanna Melin Schyllert