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- catalog abstract ""At a time when women were valued primarily for appearance, social class, and marital status, Martineau - plain, poor, and single - fought against the odds to win recognition as a writer. 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 forty years and plunge Martineau into heated reform efforts on both sides of the Atlantic."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12623097.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""At a time when women were valued primarily for appearance, social class, and marital status, Martineau - plain, poor, and single - fought against the odds to win recognition as a writer. 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 forty years and plunge Martineau into heated reform efforts on both sides of the Atlantic."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-318) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue-Literary Grandmothers and the Spirit of the Victorian Age -- Popularizer and Prophet: A Victorian Literary Identity -- Fancywork and Bluestockingism; or, Needles and Pens -- America's Martyr Age and Reign of Terror -- "I Would Fain Treat of Woman" -- "Not Fine Ladies, but True-Hearted Englishwomen" -- "(Entre Nous, Please)": "Letters Are the Thing" -- "The One Thing Needful."".
- catalog extent "x, 332 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0875802974 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.8 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 19th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Feminists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.".
- catalog subject "PR4984.M5 Z68 2002".
- catalog subject "Social reformers Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue-Literary Grandmothers and the Spirit of the Victorian Age -- Popularizer and Prophet: A Victorian Literary Identity -- Fancywork and Bluestockingism; or, Needles and Pens -- America's Martyr Age and Reign of Terror -- "I Would Fain Treat of Woman" -- "Not Fine Ladies, but True-Hearted Englishwomen" -- "(Entre Nous, Please)": "Letters Are the Thing" -- "The One Thing Needful."".
- catalog title "The hour and the woman : Harriet Martineau's "somewhat remarkable" life / Deborah Anna Logan.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".