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Selected Letters (Hardcover)
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Selected Letters (Hardcover)
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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 Bronte, 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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