The hour and the woman
Subtitle: Harriet Martineau's "somewhat remarkable" life
By: Deborah Anna Logan.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876; Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Social reformers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Feminists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "At a time when women were valued primarily for appearance, social class, and marital status, Martineau - plain, poor, and single - fought against the odds to win recognition as a writer. Her first professional triumph came in the 1830s when she published a multivolume work on political economy. International fame and literary reputation followed, launching a career that would span the next forty years and plunge Martineau into heated reform efforts on both sides of the Atlantic."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments A Note on the Letters Prologue-Literary Grandmothers and the Spirit of the Victorian Age 1 Popularizer and Prophet: A Victorian Literary Identity 2 Fancywork and Bluestockingism; or, Needles and Pens 3 America's Martyr Age and Reign of Terror 4 "I Would Fain Treat of Woman" 5 "Not Fine Ladies, but True-Hearted Englishwomen" 6 "(Entre Nous, Please)": "Letters Are the Thing" Epilogue-"The One Thing Needful".