Edith Wharton's archive, distributed across more thirty institutions in North America and Europe, is receiving renewed attention from volume editors working on The Complete Works of Edith Wharton. Their examination of holograph manuscripts has produced significant discoveries, as seen in the first article in this issue, Jennifer Haytock's “Judith Wheater's Queer Vision: Edith Wharton's Alternative Title for The Children.” Archival discoveries have long redefined Wharton studies, as when Mary Chinery and Laura Rattray located the lost Wharton play The Shadow of a Doubt in 2017, substantially revising our understanding of her work in the genre. Haytock's discovery of an alternative title for The Children is the basis for her highly original assessment of the ways the novel interrogates “its society's reliance on and reproduction of inherited structures of family, gender, and age categories.”
The second article in this issue is Emily Orlando's “‘One long vision of beauty’: Edith...
