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                                                                     " Wildfell Hall is a feminist manifesto of revolutionary power and intelligence'                                            Stevie Davies (1996)                   "It ( The Tenant of Wildfell Hall  ) was written too obviously as a work of propaganda, a treatise against drunkeness, to be considered a work of art "                                                        Winifred Gerin (1959)                            Self Portrait by Anne Mary Newton (1896)                                                    Novelist, poet and one time governess Anne Bronte was born on 17th January 1820 the youngest of six children, and sister to Emily and Charlotte Bronte.  Anne's second novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall  , credited to 'Acton Bell', was both controversial and an immediate success, the latter probably driven by the hostile outpourings of some literary critics :  " There seems in writer