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Bingo Chart Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë

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This is the third book I can cross off my bingo reading chart challenge, and I must say I am quite proud of myself for getting these books read so soon in the new year.  I decided to read a “Brontë book” that wasn’t “Jane Eyre”, because I have already read “Jane Eyre” and I love it. And you always hear about the Brontë sisters, but I have never read anything else by them. I picked “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall” because I feel like that is the best known one after “Jane Eyre”.  The book is about a young woman who comes to live in a small neighborhood in the country. She rents Wildfell Hall from a young man and lives secluded here with her young son. The neighborhood being as small as it is, its inhabitants are very curious as to any new addition. Some families go to visit the young lady, Mrs. Graham, and she is practically forced into society. A young man, Mr. Markham, ends up falling in love with her, almost despite himself, but Mrs. Graham, a young widow, is a...