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  1. The collected letters of Harriet Martineau

    Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
    London : Pickering & Chatto, 2007.

    Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. "The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau" is the first scholarly edition of her extant letters. Scattered throughout the United States and United Kingdom, almost all of the 2,000 letters reproduced in this collection are published here for the very first time. Newly transcribed in five volumes, the set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard. In her correspondence Martineau comments freely on such topics as the Reform Bill controversy, the Poor Law reform, the American Civil War, American abolitionism and slavery. Besides giving a unique insight into Martineau's domestic relationships, Martineau's correspondence with Florence Nightingale on issues such as health reform uniquely blends personal and professional matters. Throughout her life, as this edition shows, Martineau managed to exert her influence on political and social circles, even from her distant Lake District Home. This is essential reading for every scholar of Victorian biography. Yet given the broad content of Martineau's correspondence, it is also relevant to research in the wider disciplines of nineteenth-century studies, women's studies, literature, empire studies, slavery and cultural studies.

  2. Harriet Martineau's letters to Fanny Wedgwood

    Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
    Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1983.

  3. Harriet Martineau--selected letters

    Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
    Oxford : Carendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

    This is the first wide-ranging selection of letters by Harriet Martineau to a variety of correspondents, most of them major figures in Victorian literary and political history. Controversial because of Harriet 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, 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, often bigoted and opinionated 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 certainly enable the modern reader to enter into the spirit of Victorian social and literary controversy.

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