The Lessons of a Life
The Lessons of a Life

Author: Florence Fenwick Miller

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 9780332856513

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Excerpt from The Lessons of a Life: Harriet Martineau: A Lecture Delivered Before the Sunday Lecture Society, St. George's Hall, Langham Place, on Sunday Afternoon, 11th March, 1877 The pleasantest parts of the book are those in which she treats of her own inner experiences - where the interest is so strong that she forgets that she is revealing herself, and talks naturally, Openly, boldly, without self-consciousness. The least pleasant parts are those in which she speaks of the inci dents of her life, and the people who were connected with her in them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines
Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines

Author: Valerie Sanders

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-15

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1317123662

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One of the foremost writers of her time, Harriet Martineau established her reputation by writing a hugely successful series of fictional tales on political economy whose wide readership included the young Queen Victoria. She went on to write fiction and nonfiction; books, articles and pamphlets; popular travel books and more insightful analyses. Martineau wrote in the middle decades of the nineteenth century, at a time when new disciplines and areas of knowledge were being established. Bringing together scholars of literature, history, economics and sociology, this volume demonstrates the scope of Martineau's writing and its importance to nineteenth-century politics and culture. Reflecting Martineau's prodigious achievements, the essays explore her influence on the emerging fields of sociology, history, education, science, economics, childhood, the status of women, disability studies, journalism, travel writing, life writing and letter writing. As a woman contesting Victorian patriarchal relations, Martineau was controversial in her own lifetime and has still not received the recognition that is due her. This wide-ranging collection confirms her place as one of the leading intellectuals, cultural theorists and commentators of the nineteenth century.

Infidel feminism
Infidel feminism

Author: Laura Schwarz

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1526130661

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Infidel feminism is the first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought, but have, until now, been almost entirely passed over in the historiography of the Victorian and Edwardian women’s movement. In uncovering an important tradition of Freethinking feminism, this book reveals an ongoing radical and free love current connecting Owenite feminism with the more ‘respectable’ post-1850 women’s movement and the ‘New Women’ of the early twentieth century. This book will be invaluable to both scholars and students of social and cultural history and feminist thought, and to interdisciplinary studies of religion and secularisation, as well as those interested in the history of women’s movements more broadly.