The hour and the woman : Harriet Martineau's "somewhat remarkable" life /
Logan, Deborah Anna,1951-
DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press,
c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-318) and index.
Prologue-Literary grandmothers and the spirit of the Victorian Age -- Popularizer and prophet : a Victorian literary identity -- Fancywork and bluestockingism; or, needles and pens -- America's martyr age and reign of terror -- "I would fain treat of woman" -- "Not fine ladies, but true-hearted Englishwomen" -- "(Entre nous, please)": "letters are the thing" -- "The one thing needful."
Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.
Women and literature
Authors, English
Social reformers
Feminists