The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996 TV series)

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a 1996 British television serial adaptation of Anne Brontë's 1848 novel of the same name, produced by BBC and directed by Mike Barker.

[1] The serial stars Tara Fitzgerald as Helen Graham, Rupert Graves as her abusive husband Arthur Huntington and Toby Stephens as Gilbert Markham.

Only one of them, a young farmer, Gilbert Markham, succeeds in finding her secrets.

It was hoped by the BBC that the serial would be as popular as the recent production of Pride and Prejudice, which had aired a year earlier.

Indeed, some effort was put forward to promote a re-evaluation of Anne Brontë, with the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth creating an exhibition of costumes from the series.