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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography

Harriet Martineau's Autobiography

Harriet Martineau's Autobiography

Volume 3:
Harriet Martineau
Maria Weston Chapman
November 2010
3
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9781108022583
$66.00
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    Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was a British writer who was one of the first social theorists to examine all aspects of a society, including class, religion, national character and the status of women. These volumes, first published in 1877, contain Martineau's unusual autobiography. Written in three months in 1855 when she believed herself to be dying, the original two volumes remained unaltered despite her recovery and continued writing. The third volume, covering the remainder of Martineau's life, was written by her friend and literary executor, Maria Chapman, who had access to Martineau's private papers. These works were the first substantial published account of Martineau's life and work, and remain a remarkable example of the genre for Martineau's vivid descriptions and candid, outspoken opinions of Victorian society. Volume 3 contains Chapman's biography of Martineau. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=martha

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    November 2010
    Paperback
    9781108022583
    506 pages
    216 × 140 × 29 mm
    0.64kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Introduction
    • 1. Infancy
    • 2. Youth
    • 3. Womanhood
    • 4. Fame
    • 5. Foreign life - western
    • 6. Consequences - without
    • 7. Consequences - within
    • 8. Consequences - to life passive
    • 9. Foreign life - eastern
    • 10. Home
    • 11. Philosophy
    • 12. The life sorrow
    • 13. Work
    • 14. Fresh foreign intercourse
    • 15. Conversations
    • 16. Waiting for death
    • 17. Self-estimate, and other
    • 18. Survivorship.
      Authors
    • Harriet Martineau
    • Maria Weston Chapman