Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts)
Contributors: Maria H. Frawley (Editor)
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: March 14, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781551112657
Subjects: Alternative belief systems; Coping with illness; Social reformers; Knowledge; Biography / Autobiography; Women; Authors, English; Martineau, Harriet,; Biography & Autobiography; Invalids in literature; Biography/Autobiography; Health; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Literary; 19th century; Literary; Medicine; 1802-1876; Biography; Great Britain
Description: "Believing herself to be suffering from incurable condition, Harriet Martineau wrote Life in the Sick-Room in 1844. In this work, which is both memoir and treatise, Martineau seeks to educate the healthy and ill alike on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of chronic suffering. Covering such topics are "Sympathy to the Invalid," "Temper," and "Becoming Inured," the work occupies a crucial place in the culture of invalidism that prospered in Victorian England." "This Broadview edition also includes: medical documents pertaining to Martineau's case; other writings on health by Martineau; excerpts from her other autobiographical writings; selected correspondence with Florence Nightingale; excerpts from contemporary works of sick-room literature; and reviews."--Jacket.