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home of Mr and Mrs Maxwell in Tenant of Wildfell Hall . They have brought Helen up since the death of her mother, and it is here that part of Arthur Huntingdon’s courtship of her takes place. Her uncle’s death occurs shortly after her husband’s which is convenient because if it had occurred earlier the Hall, which is willed to her, would have become her husband’s property. She goes to live there with her aunt after her husband’s death, and it is here Gilbert Markham at length finds her and proposes to her. Anne is cagy about the whereabouts of the place, resorting to dashes to disguise the county it is in and the nearest town. She similarly declines to describe it in detail. ... log in or subscribe to read full text