The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading), credited to Anne Bronte, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte. Read by a full cast. A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol and the world of debauchery and cruelty from which she has fled. This passionate novel of betrayal is set within a moral framework tempered by Anne's optimistic belief in universal salvation. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is mainly considered to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. May Sinclair, in 1913, said that the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England. In escaping from her husband, she violates not only social conventions, but also English law. (Summary by Wikipedia) Cast: Gilbert Markham: DublinGothic Mrs. Markham: Anise Rose Markham: Tiffany Halla Colonna Fergus Markham: Max Körlinge Helen Graham: Amanda Friday Master Arthur Huntingdon: Grace Frederick Lawrence: Robert Hoffman Reverend Millward: Martin Geeson Eliza Millward/Narrator: Elizabeth Klett Mary Millward: Charlotte Duckett Jane Wilson: April Gonzales Mrs. Maxwell: Availle Mr. Boarham/Elderly Traveler: Ernst Pattynama Mr. Arthur Huntingdon: Chris Marcellus Annabella Wilmot: Arielle Lipshaw Mr. Maxwell/Servant: Ken Garrett Millicent Hargrave: Kristingj Lord Lowborough/Benson/Coachman: Algy Pug Mr. Grimsby/John/Traveler: Chuck Williamson Ralph Hattersley: Jason Mills Rachel: Bev J. Stevens Walter Hargrave: Noel Badrian Esther Hargrave: Beth Thomas Mrs. Hargrave/Old Woman: Rhonda Federman Audio edited by Amanda Friday

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (dramatic reading)
• Author credits: Anne Bronte
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 15:56:14

Catalogue topics

• ibrivox
• tenant of wildfell hall
• anne bronte

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 01 - Chapter 1 — 25:46
2. 02 - Chapter 2 — 12:29
3. 03 - Chapter 3 — 17:51
4. 04 - Chapter 4 — 19:39
5. 05 - Chapter 5 — 8:41
6. 06 - Chapter 6 — 17:50
7. 07 - Chapter 7 — 24:12
8. 08 - Chapter 8 — 11:23
9. 09 - Chapter 9 — 26:32
10. 10 - Chapter 10 — 11:10
11. 11 - Chapter 11 — 10:47
12. 12 - Chapter 12 — 21:29
13. 13 - Chapter 13 — 10:51
14. 14 - Chapter 14 — 17:08
15. 15 - Chapter 15 — 18:06
16. 16 - Chapter 16 — 28:13
17. 17 - Chapter 17 — 17:03
18. 18 - Chapter 18 — 25:45
19. 19 - Chapter 19 — 13:01
20. 20 - Chapter 20 — 17:11
21. 21 - Chapter 21 — 10:02
22. 22 - Chapter 22 — 30:50
23. 23 - Chapter 23 — 10:58
24. 24 - Chapter 24 — 16:53

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