Hi, I'm Jessica Porter and I'm a hypnotherapist, as well as a total relaxation nerd.

If you're struggling to sleep at night, I'm here to help.

Sleep Magic is my new podcast of relaxing hypnosis created to help you doze off tonight.

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Tonight, for our monthly snoozecast plus deluxe bonus episode, we'll read the opening to

The Tenants of Wildfell Hall, written by Anne Bronte, and published in 1848.

Anne was the youngest of the three literary Bronte sisters, and her work was long overshadowed by her siblings' more dramatic novels.

Yet the tenet of Wildfell Hall was a bold, controversial success in its day.

The novel tells the story of a mysterious woman who arrives at a decaying country manner with her young son and refuses to explain her past.

Told through a layered structure of letters and diaries, the book explores themes such as female autonomy with unusual frankness for the era.

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