The story of a woman who leaves her abusive, dissolute husband, and who must then support herself and her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce it “utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls”. It is considered to be one of the first feminist novels.Anne Bronte was an English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Bronte literary family. The daughter of Patrick Bronte, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Bronte lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.