*SPOILER ALERT*
This fan fiction short story plays with Anne Brontë's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). Anne is the youngest of the Brontë sisters, and wrote under the psydenom "Acton Bell". This early feminist novel deals with various issues including: alcoholism; gender roles and relations; marriage and abusive relationships; piety; and, motherhood, amongst other themes and subjects.
The novel is a lengthy letter from Gilbert Markham to his friend and brother-in-law about Helen Lawrence Huntington (alias: Helan Graham), whom is the mysterious tenant of WIldfell Hall. The bulk of the novel are entries from Helen's diary which narrate her falling in and out of love with her husband, Arthur Huntingdon, whom she is forced to leave in order to protect her son from his father's bad influence.
Since my fan fic will be influenced by daily prompts I am not able to foresee where my story will go. My fan fic will be from Helen's point of view and be written in a similar style to her journal entries of the novel. I may update this introduction as I see fit to better guide you throughout this week's journey of the Summer Writing Challenge.
