The Tenant of Wild fell Hall' is a classic and sometimes violent and brutal tale and betrayal, separation and reconciliation, set in the familiar Bronte landscape of bleak; houses in moorland settings. The realistic nature of the book provoked a storm of protest on its first publication and, to counter this, Anne Bronet wrote in her famous Preface to the second edition: ‘….when we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear.’