M.P. Hill

Classic of the Week: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Standout Line (from the preface to the 2nd edition): “I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the s*x of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”

(It's no wonder that Anne initially wrote under a pseudonym. After her death, her sister, Charlotte, suppressed future editions of TToWH.)