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Autobiography (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Autobiography (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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Harriet Martineau lived an extraordinary literary life. She became
a reviewer and journalist in the 1820s when her family's fortune
collapsed; published a best-selling series, Illustrations of
Political Economy (1832-34), that made her fame and fortune by the
age of thirty; overcame a hearing disability to become a "literary
lion" in London society; toured the United States and wrote two
founding texts of sociology based on her experiences; explored
north Africa and the Middle East to observe non-European societies;
wrote "leaders" (editorials) on slavery for the London Daily News
during the American Civil War; and commented publicly on matters of
politics, history, and religion in an era when women supposedly
maintained their place in the sphere of domesticity.This edition of
her Autobiography reproduces the original 1877 text, which
Martineau composed in 1855 and had printed in anticipation of her
death. It includes illustrations of the author and her homes;
excerpts from the "Memorials," added by her editor Maria Chapman;
and reviews that praise and critique Martineau's method as an
autobiographer and achievement as a Victorian woman of letters.
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