Abstract
Helen Huntingdon's friendship with Milicent Hargrave in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has received scant critical attention, yet their complex relationship challenges stereotypes of proper feminine behaviour and addresses the difficulties of negotiating the need for friendship and the desire for privacy. Despite their similar situations of being married to abusive husbands, Helen and Milicent do not confide their sorrows to each other nor provide each other counsel. Their friendship is strained by their different ways of handling their reprobate husbands and is characterized not only by affection and intimacy but also by distance and silence.
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