# The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë and Humphry Mrs. Ward has 167,133 words.

## At a glance

1848 novel by Anne Brontë.

- **Author:** [Anne Brontë](https://musael.com/books/authors/anne-bronte.md), [Humphry Mrs. Ward](https://musael.com/books/authors/humphry-mrs-ward.md) (1820–1849)
- **First published:** 1848
- **Original language:** British English
- **Genre:** literary fiction
- **Readers:** adult

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 167,133
- **Reading time:** 11 h 9 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 17 h 58 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 13 h 56 min | 28 days |
| 250 wpm | 11 h 9 min | 23 days |
| 300 wpm | 9 h 17 min | 19 days |

## Read or listen

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall
- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/969

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 170,400
- Chapters: 53
- Dialogue: 38% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 21.7 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall (word count)
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/969 (word count)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44701
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tenant_of_Wildfell_Hall
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL260101W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/969

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall