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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Introduction to the Volume Notes on the Text Text of Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman Appendix A. Unpublished Letters by Harriet Martineau Appendix B. Unpublished Materials by Maria Weston Chapman Bibliography Index.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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• 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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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.
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Based largely on Martineau's autobiography this is a sensitive biography of one of the nineteenth century's most eminent reformers and thinkers.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Harriet Martineau's Irish Writings
• A Note on the Texts
• I. London's Daily News
• 1) Napier's Land Bills (26 November 1852)
• 2) Tenant Right Question (16 December 1852)
• 3) Agricultural returns of the Irish Census (7 March 1853)
• 4) Irish Beet-sugar (17 March 1853)
• 5) Irish Income Tax (3 May 1853)
• 6) Secular Education [Book Review] (30 June 1853)
• 7) Ireland's National Schools (5 July 1853)
• 8) National Schools and Secularization (2 August 1853)
• 9) Queen's Visit: 1853 Dublin Exhibition (7 September 1853) 10) More signs of Progress: Agriculture and prosperity (24 January 1854) 11) Young Ireland and the Crimean War (14 April 1854)
• 12) Irish Mails-- Charles Gavan Duffy (24 August 1855)
• 13) Irish-Americans: the New Social Residuum (4 October 1855) 14) Know-Nothings and Irish Immigrants (12 December 1855) 15) London and West Ireland Fishing Company (19 January 1856) 16) Irish Emigration: North and South America (28 October 1856)
• 17) Irish Game-laws (31 May 1858)
• 18) Potato crop and the Irish social system (21 August 1858) 19) Galway's socio-economic regeneration (23 October 1858) 20) Peasant Violence and Catholic Priests (18 November 1858) 21) Irish Republican Brotherhood and Fenians (20 December 1858) 22) Middle-class Education (17 January 1859)
• 23) Middle-class Education (28 July 1859)
• 24) Emigrants and Labourers (12 May 1860)
• 25) Political Economy and Condition of Ireland (4 May 1863) 26) Irish Agriculture (21 September 1863)
• 27) Irish Agriculture and Continued Emigration (1 December 1863) 28) National System of Education (29 January 1864)
• 29) Irish Flax (9 September 1864)
• 30) Agricultural Gazette and Irish Landlords (15 December 1864) 31) Ireland for the Irish (25 February 1865)
• 32) Dublin Cattle Show (26 April 1865)
• 33) Dublin Exhibition: Palace of Industry and Art (10 May 1865) 34) Parliamentary Candidate for Dublin: Jonathan Pim (12 July 1865) 35) Agricultural Societies and Agrarian Activism (22 August 1865) 36) Galway: Royal Navy Base (29 August 1865)
• 37) Irish Presbyterian Church and Regium Donum (2 April 1866) 38) Irish Women and Female Industry (11 April 1866)
• II. Household Words
• 1) A New Plea for a New Food (3 May 1851)
• 2) The Life of a Salmon (11 September 1852)
• 3) Peatal Aggression (18 September 1852)
• 4) Triumphant Carriages (23 October 1852)
• 5) Hope with a Slate Anchor (30 October 1852)
• 6) The Irish Union (6 November 1852)
• 7) The Famine Time (13 November 1852)
• 8) Butter (25 December 1852)
• III. Westminster Review
• Condition and Prospects of Ireland (January 1853)
• IV. New York Evening Post
• Young Irelanders and American Fenians (3 March 1854)
• V. The Atlantic Monthly
• The Young Repealer (September 1861)
• VI. Once a Week
• 1) Ireland and her Queen (21 September 1861)
• 2) Representative Men: Political Agitators. Jack Cade and Daniel O'Connor (14 December 1861) VII. Edinburgh Review Convict System in England and Ireland (January 1863)
• Works Cited
• Further Reading.
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Aside from Letters from Ireland and Endowed Schools of Ireland, Harriet Martineau wrote an additional thirty-eight articles about Ireland for London's Daily News between 1852 and 1866, plus another thirteen articles for Household Words, Atlantic Monthly, Once a Week, Westminster Review, and New York Evening Post. It is those uncollected articles that are the focus of this study and that compliment her earlier work by providing subsequent commentary on Ireland's post-famine, reconstruction period. Whereas Letters from Ireland (1852) is a structured, sociological travel memoir meant for both periodical and volume publication, and Endowed Schools (1858) addresses a specific aspect of Irish education reform, these articles chart the course of economic and social progress in post-famine Ireland in terms of industry, public works, economy, and agriculture. They also record the growth of Irish nationalism in America and Ireland, while exploring the question of Ireland's political representation during this crucial pre-independence period. Points highlighted in this study include Martineau's unshakable optimism about the economic and social recovery of post-famine Ireland, her steady refusal to consider repeal of the Union as a viable option for remedying Ireland's troubles, and her insistence that Ireland's problems were social, not political. Treating social issues as the primary ailment and politics as merely a symptom, Martineau's writing on these topics provides important insights into the challenges facing Ireland during its transition from a feudal society to a modern, independent nation during the period of the British Empire's greatest expansion and swift demise. There are five components comprising her writing on Ireland: Ireland (Illustrations of Political Economy, 1832); History of the Peace, 1849-51; Letters from Ireland (1852); Endowed Schools of Ireland (1858); and the "Condition of Post-famine Ireland" (1852-66). It is the latter that is the focus of this volume.
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• Table of Contents Preface Foreward - Helena Znaniecka Lopate
• 1. Introduction: Harriet Martineau and the Sociological Perspectives - Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
• 2. Teaching Harriet Martineau: Biographical Synopsis and Pedagogical Primer - Michael R. Hill
• 3. 'Words on Work': Harriet Martineau's Sociology of Work and Occupations: Part I: Her Philosophy of work - Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
• 4. 'Words on Work': Harriet Martineau's Sociology of Work and Occupations: Part II: Her Empirical Investigations - Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
• 5. Making Lemonade: Harriet Martineau on Being Deaf - Mary Jo Deegan
• 6. The Florence Nightingale-Harriet Martieau Collaboration - Lynn McDonald
• 7. The Moral of Many Fables: Martineau's Systematic Exposition of Social Theory in the Illustrations of Political Economy - Michael R. Hill
• 8. The Meaning of 'Things': Theory and Method in Harriet Martineau's How to Observe Morals and Manners and Emile Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method - Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Jill Niebrugge-Brantley
• 9. A Methodological Comparison of Harriet Martineau's Society in America (1837) and Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835-1840) - Michael R. Hill
• 10. Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Connection - Pat Duffy Hutcheon
• 11. Epilogue: Harriet Martineau and the Future of Sociology - Susan Hoecker-Drysdale and Michael R. Hill Endnotes References Index About the Contributors.
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The Essays in this volume explore the work of Harriet Martineau from a sociological perspective, highlighting her theoretical contributions in the areas of the sociology of labor, gender and political economy. The contributors each offer a contextual, theoretical and methodological assessment of her work beginning with the opportunities and challenges of utilizing Martineau pedagogically in the sociology classroom.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction I. Authorship and Identity
• 1. Harriet Martineau, Woman of Letters
• 2. Harriet Martineau's 'Intellectual Nobility': Gender, Genius, and Disability
• 3. '(Entre nous, please!)': Harriet Martineau's Correspondence
• 4. Self-presentation and Instability in Harriet Martineau's Autobiography
• 5. 'Socinian and Political-Economy Formulas': Martineau the Unitarian
• 6. Provocative Agendas: Martineau's Translation of Comte II. Political Economy, Technology and Society
• 7. Domesticating Political Economy: Language, Gender, and Economics in the Illustrations of Political Economy
• 8. Feminism, Speculation and Agency in Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy
• 9. 'Secret Organisation of Trades': Harriet Martineau and 'Free Labour' in Victorian Britain
• 10. Spending Sprees and Machine Accidents: Martineau and the Mystery of Improvidence II. Empire, Race, Nation
• 11. 'With the Practised Eye of a Deaf Person': Martineau's Travel Writing and the Construction of the Disabled Traveller
• 12. Slavery, Race, History: Harriet Martineau's Ethnographic Imagination
• 13. Imperial Woman: Harriet Martineau, Geopolitics and the Romance of Improvement 14.Harriet Martineau and India: On Not Writing Accusatory History
• 15. Writing a History, Writing a Nation: Harriet Martineau's History of the Peace Recommended Reading.
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*Harriet Martineau* responds to the strong revival of interest in her life and writing, exploring Martineau's controversial views through her innovative use of popular cultural forms-journalism, travel writing, didactic fiction, novels, translation, autobiography and history. This is the first collection of essays to revisit and reassess Martineau's leading place in Victorian culture and in the development of nineteenth-century liberalism. Distinguished contributors-including Isobel Armstrong, Lauren Goodlad, Catherine Hall, Deborah Logan and Linda Peterson-offer critical analyses of her trailblazing career as a professional 'woman of letters'. The essays collected here move from personal to global concerns in Martineau's oeuvre. The opening essays centre on her bold self-fashioning as a writer, while the second section focuses on the domestic complexities of laissez-faire liberalism in her economic and social vision. Finally, the volume analyses her provocative writings on race, Empire and history - from Atlantic slavery to the Indian Mutiny - demonstrating the international breadth and impact of a remarkable career.
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• Prologue-- The Empire question: war and peace-- The Irish question: 'that most quarrelsome country'-- Sugar, spice, and the slavery question: West Indies, South Seas Islands, and East Indies-- The India question: 'that remote, and odd, and troublesome settlement'-- The Far East question: 'a national disgrace': South Asia, Eastern Archipelago, China, Japan-- The Near East question: Egypt and the passage to India-- The scramble for Africa question: 'that impracticable country'-- Epilogue-- Appendices-- Bibliography-- Index.
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In her in-depth study of Harriet Martineau's writings on the evolution of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, Deborah A. Logan elaborates the ways in which Martineau's works reflect Victorian concerns about radically shifting social ideologies. To understand Martineau's interventions into the Empire Question, Logan argues, is to recognize her authority as an insightful political commentator, historian, economist, and sociologist whose eclectic studies and intellectual curiosity positioned her as a shrewd observer and recorder of the imperial enterprise. Logan's primary sources are Martineau's nonfiction works, particularly those published in periodicals, complemented by telling references from Martineau's didactic fiction, correspondence, and autobiography. Key texts of this title include: "History of The Peace"; "Letters from Ireland and Endowed Schools of Ireland"; "Illustrations of Political Economy"; "Eastern Life, Present and Past"; and, "History of British Rule in India and Suggestions for the Future Rule of India". Logan shows Martineau negotiating the inevitable conflict that arises when the practices of Victorian imperialism are measured against its own stated principles, and especially against Martineau's idea of both the Civilizing Mission and the indigenous cultural integrity often compromised in the process. The picture of Martineau that emerges is complex and fascinating. Both an advocate and a critic of British imperialism, Martineau was a persistent champion of the Civilizing Mission. Written with an awareness that she was recording contemporary history for future generations, Martineau's writings on this perpetually fascinating, often tragic, and always instructive chapter in British and world history deserve to take their place alongside the memoirs of statesmen and other prominent players of the age.
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In her in-depth study of Harriet Martineau's writings on the evolution of the British Empire in the nineteenth century, Deborah A. Logan elaborates the ways in which Martineau's works reflect Victorian concerns about radically shifting social ideologies. To understand Martineau's interventions into the Empire Question, Logan argues, is to recognize her authority as an insightful political commentator, historian, economist, and sociologist whose eclectic studies and intellectual curiosity positioned her as a shrewd observer and recorder of the imperial enterprise.
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