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Item Details
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SELECTED LETTERS
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| By: |
Harriet Martineau, Professor Valerie R. Sanders (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£32.49 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198186045 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198186045 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 February, 1991 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
A scholarly edition of letters by Harriet Martineau. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. |
| Synopsis: |
Harriet Martineau, versatile woman of letters, philosopher, and economist, was at the heart of Victorian literary and social life. This is the first wide-ranging selection of her letters to a variety of correspondents, most of them major figures in Victorian political and literary history. Controversial because of Martineau's lifelong resistance to the future publication of her private correspondence, the letters reveal her outspoken views on contemporary writers, the working classes, women's role in society, political change, illness, mesmerism, and her own writing. Her opinions on literary realism and George Eliot, biography and Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte, and Elizabeth Barrett's contribution to modern poetry are among the topics aired in these unashamedly forthright and often bigoted letters. Yet in her Autobiography, Harriet Martineau agrees with her friends 'that it would be rather an advantage' to her than otherwise, to be known by her private letters. They allow the modern reader to enter fully into the spirit of Victorian social and literary controversy. |
| Illustrations: |
frontispiece portrait |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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Non-returnable |
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