AutobiographyBroadview Press, 2006 M12 21 - 741 pages Harriet Martineau lived an extraordinary literary life. She became a reviewer and journalist in the 1820s when her family’s fortune collapsed; published a best-selling series, Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-34), that made her fame and fortune by the age of thirty; overcame a hearing disability to become a “literary lion” in London society; toured the United States and wrote two founding texts of sociology based on her experiences; explored north Africa and the Middle East to observe non-European societies; wrote “leaders” (editorials) on slavery for the London Daily News during the American Civil War; and commented publicly on matters of politics, history, and religion in an era when women supposedly maintained their place in the sphere of domesticity. This edition of her Autobiography reproduces the original 1877 text, which Martineau composed in 1855 and had printed in anticipation of her death. It includes illustrations of the author and her homes; excerpts from the “Memorials,” added by her editor Maria Chapman; and reviews that praise and critique Martineau’s method as an autobiographer and achievement as a Victorian woman of letters. |
Contents
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SECTION IISchool life Home life Reading Deafness Politics | 87 |
SECTION ILondon lodgings Life there Amount of work Times | 152 |
SECTION IIIFaults and misery Going to Bristol | 183 |
SECTION IILiterary Lionism Norwich at the beginning of the century | 211 |
39 | 255 |
57 | 263 |
PERIOD IV | 327 |
The Billow and the Rock Going to the East | 514 |
SECTION IVChartism in 1848 Whig notions of popular manage | 538 |
Words For Sartains Magazine Sketches from Life Mr Jerrold | 553 |
SECTION VIAnticipations of the results of the Atkinson Letters | 567 |
TO THIRTY YEARS | 594 |
SECTION VIIScheme of translating Comtes Positive Philosophy | 604 |
SECTION VIIIIntroduction to Daily News Irish journey Servants | 610 |
SECTION IXFatal illness Home and preparation Mistake of life | 627 |
SECTION IVBooksellers proffers and methods Society | 393 |
SECTION IMorbid conditions as a matter of study Causes of illness | 432 |
SECTION IIAntitheological progression | 457 |
88 | 458 |
SECTION IIIRecovery Letters on Mesmerism Persecution | 462 |
PERIOD VI | 472 |
Robert Peel Garden and sundial Tourists Leaving home | 488 |
Illustrations from the Autobiography 1877 | 648 |
PORTRAIT OF HARRIET MARTINEAU 1833 | 649 |
Selections from the Memorials 1877 | 654 |
Obituary London Daily News 29 June 1876 | 660 |
Contemporary Reviews | 672 |
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