The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau's "Somewhat Remarkable" Life - Hardcover

Logan, Deborah Anna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875802974 ISBN 13: 9780875802978

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002

Synopsis

A British journalist and pioneering social reformer, Harriet Martineau reigned at the forefront of 19th century debates about social and political issues. This work chronicles her life, showing how her fight for the eradication of slavery strengthened the abolitionist movement in the years before the American Civil War, and her advocacy of health reform and women's rights lent crucial assistance to those causes. At a time when women were valued primarily for appearance, social class, and marital status, Martineau - plain, poor, and single - had more than just literary prejudices to overcome. 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 35 years and plunge Martineau into heated reform effects on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Review:

"A splendid book, richly detailed and well documented. Logan builds an excellent case for a restoration of Martineau's status as one of the leading Victorian intellectuals and political activists." Gayle Graham Yates, author of "Harriet Martineau on Women"

"A significant contribution about a writer who is gradually but steadily assuming a central place in nineteenth-century studies and women's history."
Maria Frawley, University of Delaware"

About the Author:

DEBORAH ANNA LOGAN is Associate Professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0875802974
• ISBN 13: 9780875802978
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 343