The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Broadview Edition

Broadview Press has just published its edition of Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. As usual with Broadview editions, the book comes with some interesting extras:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Written by: Anne Brontë
Edited by: Lee A. Talley

Series: Broadview Editions

Publication Date: August 15, 2009
650pp • Paperback
ISBN: 9781551115085 / 1551115085

Anne Brontë's second and last novel was widely and contentiously reviewed upon its 1848 publication, in part because its subject matter domestic violence, alcoholism, women's rights, and universal salvation was so controversial. The tale unfolds through a series of letters between two friends as one man learns more about Helen Huntingdon and the past that brought this young painter and single mother to Wildfell Hall. Powerfully plotted and unconventionally structured, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is now considered to be a classic of Victorian literature.
This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that situates the novel in significant Victorian debates, and provides appendices that make clear Brontë's intellectual inheritance from important eighteenth-century writers such as Hannah More and Mary Wollstonecraft. Material on temperance, education, childrearing, and nineteenth-century women artists is also included in the appendices.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Anne Brontë: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Appendix A: Writings by the Brontës

Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews

Appendix C: Women's Education

1. Mary Wollstonecraft, Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
2. Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
3. Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)
4. Sarah Lewis, Women's Mission (1839)
5. John Cowie, "Noble Sentiments on the Influence of Women" (1847)

Appendix D: Wives

1. Hannah More, from Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808)
2. Caroline Norton, "A Letter to the Queen" 1855

Appendix E: Childrearing

Appendix F: Temperance

1. Joseph Entwistle, "On Drinking Spirits" (1804)
2. J.P. Parker, Lecture on Temperance and Slavery (1847)
3. Unsigned, "Temperance and Teetotal Societies" (1853)

Appendix G: Women and Art

1. Unsigned, "Let Us Join the Ladies," Punch (1857)
2. Ellen C. Clayton, English Female Artists (1876)

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