Harriet Martineau's Autobiography
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Part of Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
- Date Published: December 2010
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- isbn: 9781108022590
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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 Martineau believed herself to be dying of heart disease, the original two volumes remained unaltered despite her recovery. The third volume, covering the remainder of Martineau's life, was written by friend literary executor Maria Western Chapman, using her first-hand knowledge and access to Martineau's private papers. These volumes were the first substantial published account of Martineau's life and work, and remain a remarkable example of the genre for Martineau's vivd descriptions and candid, outspoken opinions of Victorian society. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=martha
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- Date Published: December 2010
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108022590
- length: 1496 pages
- dimensions: 330 x 252 x 70 mm
- weight: 2.28kg
- contains: 6 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Introduction
Part I. To Eight Years Old:
1. Ill health and terrors
2. Journey to Newcastle
Part II. To Seventeen Years Old:
1. Tabulating Bible morals
2. School life
3. Faults and misery
Part III. To Thirty Years Old:
1. Family relations
2. First appearance in print
3. Calamities
4. Scheme of the Political Economy Series
Part IV. To Thirty-Seven Years Old:
1. London lodgings
2. 'Literary lionism'
Appendix A. Miss Berry. Volume 2: Part IV:
3. Mr. Mill on national character
4. Booksellers' proffers and methods
Period V. To Forty-Three Years Old:
1. Morbid conditions as a matter of study
2. Anti-theological progression
3. Recovery
Part VI. To Fifty-Three Years Old:
1. Relish of life at last
2. Long credit system
3. 'The Billow and the Rock'
4. Chartism in 1848
5. Currer Bell
6. Anticipations of the results of the Atkinson Letters
7. Scheme of translating Comte's 'Positive Philosophy'
8. Introduction to 'Daily News'
9. Fatal illness
Appendix. Volume 3: 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.
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