Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Anne Brontë: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Appendix A: Other Writings by Anne and Charlotte Brontë
- Anne Brontë, Letter to the Reverend David Thom (30 December 1848)
- Anne Brontë, “To Cowper” (1846)
- Anne Brontë, “A Word to the ‘Elect’” (1846)
- From Charlotte Brontë, “Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell” (1850)
- Charlotte Brontë, Introduction to “Poems by Acton Bell” (1850)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews
- Athenaeum (8 July 1848)
- The Examiner (29 July 1848)
- Fraser’s Magazine (April 1849)
- The Literary World (12 August 1848)
- North American Review (October 1848)
- Rambler (September 1848)
- Sharpe’s London Magazine (August 1848)
- The Spectator (8 July 1848)
Appendix C: Women’s Education
- From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
- From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)
- From Sarah Lewis, Woman’s Mission (1840)
- John Cowie, “Noble Sentiments on the Influence of Women,” Howitt’s Journal (March 1847)
Appendix D: Wives
- From Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808)
- From Caroline Norton, A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth’s Marriage and Divorce Bill (1855)
Appendix E: Childrearing
- From Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)
- From John S.C. Abbott, The Mother at Home (1833)
- From John S.C. Abbott, The Child at Home (1834)
- From Sarah Lewis, Woman’s Mission (1840)
- From Berthold Auerbach, “Every–day Wisdom, Plucked from the Garden of Childhood,” Howitt’s Journal (January 1848)
- From Anonymous, “The Moral Discipline of Children,” British Quarterly Review (April 1858)
Appendix F: Temperance
- From Joseph Entwisle, “On Drinking Spirits,” The Methodist Magazine (July 1804)
- J.P. Parker, Lecture on Temperance and Slavery, Howitt’s Journal (24 April 1847)
- From Anonymous, “Temperance and Teetotal Societies,” Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (April 1853)
- Thomas Buchanan Read, “What a Word May Do” (1868)
Appendix G: Women and Art
- Anonymous, “Let Us Join the Ladies,” Punch (July 1857)
- From Ellen C. Clayton, English Female Artists (1876)
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