The Tenant of Wildfell Hall/Characters
Helen Huntingdon (née Lawrence)
- All Girls Want Bad Boys... but grow to regret it.
- Broken Bird
- Does Not Like Men: Natural result of Domestic Abuse.
- False Widow
- The First Cut Is the Deepest
- Honor Before Reason: Gone Horribly Right for her, by the end.
- Duty First, Love Second
- Lysistrata Gambit
- Malicious Slander: Victim thereof.
- Mama Bear
- My God, What Have I Done?
- Narrator for most of the book via her diary.
- Plucky Girl
- Raven Hair, Ivory Skin
- Shiny Midnight Black
- Statuesque Stunner: She is mentioned to be tall in the books, and while too thin, attractive.
- Stoic Woobie
- You Go, Girl!: The heroine of "the First Feminist Novel," after all.
Gilbert Markham
- Anguished Declaration of Love
- Crazy Jealous Guy
- The Dutiful Son
- Farm Boy
- Honor Before Reason, post-Character Development
- I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
- Momma's Boy
- My God, What Have I Done?: Who'd have thought a Relative Error could have such disastrous consequences?
- Narrator of the Framing Device of a letter to his brother-in-law.
- Pet the Dog: In typical Bronte tradition.
- Ron the Death Eater
- Second Love
- Unreliable Narrator
- What an Idiot!
- What the Hell, Hero?
Frederick Lawrence
- Big Brother Instinct
- Knight in Shining Armor: For both Helen and Esther Hargrave.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits
- The Quiet One
- Relative Error
Arthur Huntingdon
- Alas, Poor Villain
- All Take and No Give
- The Alcoholic
- Complete Monster
- Crazy Jealous Guy
- Death Equals Redemption
- Evil Is Sexy
- The Hedonist
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Kills himself with his drinking and self-indulgence.
- I'm a Man, I Can't Help It
- It's All About Me.
- Jerkass
- Man Child
- Your Cheating Heart
Walter Hargrave
- Big Brother Instinct: Helen expects Hargrave to pull this when Hattersley is bullying Millicent. He tries, but not very hard.
- Hypocrite
- Prince Charming Wannabe
- Stalker with a Crush