Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Thomas Hardy: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Appendix A: General Preface to the Wessex Edition of 1912
Appendix B: Bowdlerized Passages from the Graphic
Appendix C: Hardy’s “Saturday Night in Arcady” (1891) and “The Midnight Baptism” (1891)
Appendix D: Hardy’s Map of Wessex (1895)
Appendix E: Hardy’s “Tess’s Lament” (1911)
Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews
- From Unsigned, Pall Mall Gazette (31 December 1891)
- Clementina Black, Illustrated London News
(9 January 1892) - From Unsigned, The Athenaeum (9 January 1892)
- From Unsigned [R.H. Hutton], The Spectator (23 January 1892)
- From Andrew Lang, The New Review (February 1892)
- From Unsigned, Review of Reviews (February 1892)
- From Unsigned [Mowbray Morris], The Quarterly Review
(April 1892) - From Unsigned, Novel Review (March 1892)
- From Grant Allen, Novel Review (July 1892)
- From Andrew Lang, Longman’s Magazine
(November 1892) - From D.F. Hannigan, The Westminster Review (1892)
Appendix G: Contemporary News
- “Execution of the Convict Martha Brown” (14 August 1856)
- “Accident” (17 October 1872)
- [“The Turberville Coach”] (4 June 1885)
- “Shocking Suicide” (2 August 1888)
Appendix H: Contemporary Debates on Women, Sexuality, and Fiction
- From Unsigned, “Outrages on Women,” North British Review (May 1896)
- From Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Wild Women as Social Insurgents,” The Nineteenth Century (October 1891)
- From Eliza Lynn Linton, “The Partisans of the Wild Women,” The Nineteenth Century (March 1892)
- From Mona Caird, “A Defense of the So-Called ‘Wild Women,’” The Nineteenth Century (May 1892)
- From Unsigned, “Men’s Women in Fiction,” The Westminster Review (May 1898)
- From D.F. Hannigan, “Sex in Fiction,” The Westminster Review (1895)
Appendix I: Hardy’s “Candour in English Fiction” (1890)
Appendix J: Excerpts from Hardy’s Autobiography
Works Cited and Recommended Reading