• Volumes 1 5 History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to
• 1854. With an introduction 1800 to 1815 (1864) Volume 1 begins with the year 1790 telling the story of the aftermath of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Volumes 2 5, cover a period known as the thirty years' peace which became, unofficially, the forty years' peace. This was a fascinating period which saw, amongst other things, the impact of industrialism on society, the 1832 Reform Bill, the rise and fall of Chartism and the famine years in Ireland . Volume 6 England and her Soldiers (1859)-- Daily News leaders on sanitary reform in the armed forces: Army Hygiene' (14 January 1859 and 18 January 1859)-- Royal Commission on the Sanitary Condition of the Army' (26 January 1859)-- Reconstitution of the Army Medical Department' ( 11 February 1859 )-- An appeal to the Minister of War: Why the Delay?'(16 February 1859)-- Sanitary reform for preventable epidemic disease as a matter of national security' (5 March 1859)-- Sidney Herbert and barrack reform' (27 June 1859)-- Overview of sanitary reform in the military in Review of the Year ' (31 December 1859)-- Health in the Camps', Health in the Hospitals', Atlantic Monthly (1861)-- Previously unpublished correspondence between Martineau and Florence Nightingale addressing health, illness, mortality, preventable disease, and nationalism-- Selections from Once a Week: Florence Nightingale's Latest Charity' (15 August 1863)-- The Training of Nurses' (30 June 1860)--
• 3 Woman's Battlefield' (3 December 1859)-- The Soldier and Sailor: Their Health' (5 January 1861)-- Nurses Wanted', Cornhill Magazine (1865)-- Miss Nightingale's Notes on Nursing', Quarterly Review (1860).
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Academic - British History - Nineteenth-Century Studies - Military History - Women's Studies This edition of Martineau's history consists primarily of the History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854, as well as the introductory History of England, AD 1800 to 1815. Martineau's work thus encompasses British history from the turn of the nineteenth century through the Crimean War. Along with extensive annotations, this edition features a comprehensive introduction discussing Martineau's life and work, her role as a historian, her pioneering contributions to the emerging discipline of historiography as well as the work's reception history. Also included in this edition is Martineau's England and Her Soldiers and the unpublished correspondence between Martineau and Florence Nightingale. Published in 1859, England and Her Soldiers records an unusual history - the history of military campaigns and policies effecting soldiers' health, performance and well-being. A life-long advocate of sanitary reform, Martineau responded enthusiastically to Florence Nightingale's request to collaborate on a work promoting reforms in military hygiene. In England and Her Soldiers, Martineau's strong narrative dramatises Nightingale's findings gleaned from the latter's experiences at Scutari Hospital during the Crimean War. The proposed sanitary reforms addressed conditions in the barracks, hospitals and on the field. The edition is complemented by Martineau's leaders on health issues for the Daily News, the Atlantic Monthly and Once a Week which were aimed at generating broader public interest in political and sanitary reforms in the British military, reforms that reflected on the state of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.
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• Contents Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction to the Volume Notes on the Text Text of Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman Appendix A. Unpublished Letters by Harriet Martineau Appendix B. Unpublished Materials by Maria Weston Chapman Bibliography Index.
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Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau's Autobiography. The volume consists of primary materials written by Martineau that are available nowhere else, published or archival, along with memorials of Martineau by prominent people of the era. This is the first scholarly edition of the Memorials-a biography of one of the foremost intellectual women of the nineteenth century, told primarily in her own words.
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• .cs7CED571B{text-align:left--text-indent:0pt--padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt--margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000--background-color:transparent--font-fa mily:Times New Roman-- font-size:12pt-- font-weight:normal-- font-style:normal-- } Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction The Letters:
• Chapter 1. 1820s-30s
• Chapter 2. 1840s
• Chapter 3. 1850s
• Chapter 4. 1860s
• Chapter 5. 1870s
• Chapter 6. Letters written for Harriet Martineau
• Chapter 7. Notes and fragments
• Chapter 8. Harriet Martineau to James Martineau
• Chapter 9. Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Jesser Reid Appendix A. Biographical Directory Appendix B. Directory of Place-names Appendix C. Periodicals Writing.
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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction The Letters:
• Chapter 1. 1820s-30s
• Chapter 2. 1840s
• Chapter 3. 1850s
• Chapter 4. 1860s
• Chapter 5. 1870s
• Chapter 6. Letters written for Harriet Martineau
• Chapter 7. Notes and fragments
• Chapter 8. Harriet Martineau to James Martineau
• Chapter 9. Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Jesser Reid Appendix A. Biographical Directory Appendix B. Directory of Place-names Appendix C. Periodicals Writing.
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.cs8004C8AF{text-align:justify; text-indent:0pt; padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt; margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } Harriet Martineau (1802--1876) is one of the most prolific and well-connected Victorian writers to have fallen off the literary map in the century following her death. During a career spanning half a century, Martineau wrote over fifty didactic-fiction tales, about forty books, and well over two thousand periodical articles. Emphasizing the pervasiveness of her literary influence, most of her books underwent multiple editions and translations, while her periodicals writing placed her at the forefront of the mass-media reading public. But it is her correspondence that best illustrates the breadth and depth of her sociocultural and intellectual contributions. In 1843, Martineau notoriously asserted control over her letters by insisting that her correspondents destroy or return them or else forfeit the epistolary relationship. Just as notoriously, an astonishing number of correspondents quietly refused to comply, resulting in more than two thousand extant pieces of correspondence. The materials in Harriet Martineau: Further Letters range from the 1820s through 1870s and include both private and professional correspondence, from brief notes to long discourses, addressing topics from domestic minutiae and personal health to national and international affairs. A key strength of this collection is its eclecticism, best seen in the letters to some of the most significant people in her life--Maria Weston Chapman, Jane Welsh Carlyle, James Martineau, Elizabeth Jesser Reid, and Henry Atkinson--the originals of which have been destroyed, lost, or are otherwise unavailable. Contextualizing as prolific and well-connected an individual as Harriet Martineau contributes directly to broader scholarship on the Victorian era, its prominent players, and the issues with which they grappled. Martineau was an interdisciplinary thinker and writer long before the term acquired its present popular currency--another factor accounting both for her posthumous unfashionability and her present renaissance.
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• v. 1. Letters 1819-1837
• v. 2. Letters 1837-1845
• v. 3. Letters 1845-1855
• v. 4. Letters 1856-1862
• v. 5 Letters 1863-1876.

Throughout her fifty-year career, Harriet Martineau's prolific literary output was matched only by her exchanges with a range of high-profile British, American and European correspondents. "The Collected Letters of Harriet Martineau" is the first scholarly edition of her extant letters. Scattered throughout the United States and United Kingdom, almost all of the 2,000 letters reproduced in this collection are published here for the very first time. Newly transcribed in five volumes, the set focuses on the letters written by Martineau, contextualising the correspondence through annotation of the highest standard. In her correspondence Martineau comments freely on such topics as the Reform Bill controversy, the Poor Law reform, the American Civil War, American abolitionism and slavery. Besides giving a unique insight into Martineau's domestic relationships, Martineau's correspondence with Florence Nightingale on issues such as health reform uniquely blends personal and professional matters. Throughout her life, as this edition shows, Martineau managed to exert her influence on political and social circles, even from her distant Lake District Home. This is essential reading for every scholar of Victorian biography. Yet given the broad content of Martineau's correspondence, it is also relevant to research in the wider disciplines of nineteenth-century studies, women's studies, literature, empire studies, slavery and cultural studies.
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When the Ibbotson sisters, Hester and Margaret, arrive at the village of Deerbrook to stay with their cousin Mr Grey and his wife, speculation is rife that one of them might marry the local apothecary Edward Hope. Although he is immediately attracted to Margaret, Hope is ultimately persuaded to marry the beautiful Hester. The unhappiness of their marriage is compounded when a malicious village gossip accuses Hope of grave-robbing.
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• Volume 1The Empire Question'Life in the Wilds' (1832)-- 'Demerara' (1833)-- 'Cinnamon and Pearls' (1833)-- 'Dawn Island' (1845)Volume 2The Middle Eastern QuestionEastern Life, Present and Past (1848), Part IVolume 3The Middle Eastern QuestionEastern Life, Present and Past (1848), Part IIVolume 4The Irish Question'Ireland' (1832)-- Letters from Ireland (1852)-- Endowed Schools of Ireland (1858)Volume 5The India QuestionBritish Rule In India. A Historical Sketch (1857)-- Suggestions Towards The Future Government Of India (1858)-- India [Our Ignorance of India], Daily News (1857)-- India ['Review of the Year'], Daily News (1857)-- India, [Understanding India] Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Land], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Taxation], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Justice], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Treatment of Criminals], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Public Works], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Education], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Public Works], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Welfare of Natives], Daily News (1858)-- East India Company [Final Dissolution], Daily News (1858)-- China [Sir John Bowring], Daily News (1857)-- China [British Aggression], Daily News, (1857)-- China [and the Indian Mutiny], Daily News (1857)-- China [Impending War], Daily News (1857)-- China ['Review of the Year'], Daily News (1857)-- China [Canton], Daily News (1858)-- China [Canton and Western Trade], Daily News (1858).
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"Ireland" dramatizes the problems caused by absentee landlordism, the grinding poverty of Irish peasant farmers, the depletion of the soil through subdivisions and lack of crop rotation, and the criminal element fostered by hopeless poverty. Education and gender issues are also central to this tale. "Demerara" depicts slavery on a West Indian plantation and earned Martineau notoriety as an abolitionist sympathiser in America. "Cinnamon and Pearls" represents the exploitation of Cingalese pearl divers and cinnamon harvesters by British colonials. This tale articulates concerns about the morals and ethics of human exploitation and its links with Christianity and capitalism. Finally, Dawn Island (1845) takes place on a South Seas island, where a primitive culture is confronted for the first time by white English traders. Written to protest import tax on foreign grain, the tale promotes world-wide free trade, which was, for Martineau, the motivation behind Imperial enterprises. Volume 2; Eastern Life, Present and Past (1848); The statement for which Martineau was labelled an 'infidel' was her assertion that Middle Eastern civillization has a rich and varied history in terms of culture and religion, pre-dating the claims Christian Europe has made for its own pre-eminence. Her sociological perspective characterises this narrative, as does her affinity for history, women's issues, philosophy and theology. Martineau's commentary on harems has been cited by modern scholars of women's studies and Middle-Eastern studies. Volume 3; Letters from Ireland (1852); selected Daily News articles from her series Endowed Schools of Ireland (1858); Letters from Ireland is a sociological study of the people, culture and institutions of Ireland as seen by Martineau during her 1852 tour as a Daily News correspondent. This is supplemented by her twelve-part Endowed Schools series, a selection of articles addressing ongoing issues in contemporary Ireland. Volume 4; History of British Rule in India (1857); This work outlines events culminating in the 1857 Indian uprising. Martineau's concern is to provide the general public with a history of India, in relation to the British presence there. She warns that England stands to 'lose' India unless it alters its approach to dealing with the country, claiming that India must be governed for the Indians. She emphasises however, that India is not really a colony, and criticizes Britain's tendency to exploit India's wealth for its own material gain. Bridging the cultural gaps separating the two countries is, she argues, of paramount concern in order to improve and preserve this complex relationship. Volume 5; Suggestions towards the Future Government of India (1858) with supplementary Daily News articles on the aftermath of the 1857 'Mutiny'; Suggestions towards...is a consideration of the role played by the British East India Company in the recent political developments in India. Martineau argues that the current proposal to reduce or eliminate the Company's power would further compromise this fragile political relationship.
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This inviting and wonderfully accessible collection of Harriet Martineau's essays (together with one fictional tale) - culled from hard-to-find American and British publications - chronicles the life, economy, society, and physical terrain of the English Lake District during the mid-Victorian era. As the first woman sociologist and an astute social observer, Martineau portrays and comments on the people of her beloved Lake District, their customs, virtues, health, and social problems.
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This publication is a compilation of the writings of British journalist Harriet Martineau and her influence as one of the leading social reformers of her day. It expresses her views on American society, politics, and her support for the abolition of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
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This is the first wide-ranging selection of letters by Harriet Martineau to a variety of correspondents, most of them major figures in Victorian literary and political history. Controversial because of Harriet 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, 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, often bigoted and opinionated 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 certainly enable the modern reader to enter into the spirit of Victorian social and literary controversy.
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