Harriet Martineau

Deerbrook

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A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.Like the later and more famous novel Midd…

Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid

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Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom.…

The Crofton Boys

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Children's Fictional Novel; an historic testament to family and school life in the 1800's; a mesmerizing and touching piece about a young bo…

Illustrations of Political Economy, Volume 1

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Hugely popular at their time of publication, Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy sought to turn the abstract principles o…