The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel by English writer Anne Bronte, sister to Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte. The novel was published in 1848 and tells the story of Helen Huntington and Gilbert Markham. The story's point of view alternates between that of Gilbert and Helen, told in the form of a letter Gilbert is writing to his brother-in-law and entries from Helen's diary that she entrusts to Gilbert. In the novel, Helen Huntington arrives in the village where Gilbert Markham, a farmer, lives with his mother, sister, and brother. Helen moves into an abandoned estate, Wildfell Hall with her small son. She gives her name as Helen Graham because, unknown to the villagers, she has run away from her alcoholic, adulterous husband Arthur Huntington. Her flight is from her fears of his damaging influence on her son's upbringing and her refusal to turn a blind eye to Arthur's infidelity.