Harriet Martineau: Selected Letters
Selected Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23813729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harriet Martineau (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Valerie Sanders |
| Year | 1991 |
| Pages | 268 |
| Publication date | 1991-02-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Harriet Martineau (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/actrade/9780198186045.book.1 |
| OpenAlex | W638764290 |
| ISBN | 9780198186045 |
| Open Library | OL1855464M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
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.
Art · Art history · Biography · History of literature · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Realism · Resistance (ecology) · Variety (cybernetics) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Modernist Literature and Criticism · 19th century · Authors, english · Correspondance · Correspondence · Correspondencia · English Authors · Great britain · harriet Martineau (1802-1876) · Social reformers · Women social reformers
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2017 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |