Selected Letters Hardback
by Harriet Martineau
Edited by Valerie (Lecturer in English Literature, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Buck Sanders
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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 Brontë, 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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, frontispiece portrait
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/1991
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- ISBN:9780198186045
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:304 pages, frontispiece portrait
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:21/02/1991
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- ISBN:9780198186045