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   Aug 1, 2019 · When diagnosed with a heart condition in 1855, the preeminent intellectual Harriet Martineau believed herself to be close to death and wrote her Autobiography.

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2. martineausociety.co.uk › the-martineaus › harrietHarriet Martineau (1802-76) – Martineau Society

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   After her father’s death in 1826 it had become necessary for her to earn her own living. Deaf since the age of twelve, she would have been unsuitable as a governess, and though she was prepared to support herself with needlework, writing soon provided her with a career as well as her independence.

3. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Harriet Martineau (1802–1876): Autobiography, Biography, and ...

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   Nov 10, 2017 · Of the “Autobiographical Memoir” published in Daily News, Oliphant questions that “a woman thought it fit and becoming” not only to write her own obituary but to do so in third-person voice, to Oliphant a pathetic ruse to appear self-effacing while trumpeting one’s decidedly mediocre achievements. 6 HM’s reputation is overblown—in ...

   • Author: Deborah A. Logan

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4. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk › lynn-shepherd › harriet'This Fatal Catastrophe': The Sad Life and Strange Death of ...

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   Aug 19, 2013 · So how did Harriet Shelley die? Some of her more passionate advocates have gone so far as to suggest that Godwin could have killed her, or had her killed, the theory being that she was standing...

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6. yorkshiregirl.org.uk › harrietHarriet Martineau 1802-1876

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   Typical of the woman is her own obituary written by her and to be published in the Daily News after her death: Her original power was nothing more than was due to earnestness and intellectual clearness within a certain range.

7. www.smithsonianmag.com › history › the-victorianWho Was Victorian Writer Harriet Martineau? | Smithsonian

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   Nov 4, 2021 · The Victorian Woman Writer Who Refused to Let Doctors Define Her. Harriet Martineau took control of her medical care, defying the male-dominated establishment’s attempts to dismiss her as ...

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   Why was Harriet Martineau important?

   • It maps her engagement as one of the key intellectuals of the nineteenth century, alongside her influence in literary, political, and social networks. When diagnosed with a heart condition in 1855, the preeminent intellectual Harriet Martineau believed herself to be close to death and wrote her Autobiography.

   Martineau, Harriet, Autobiography | SpringerLink

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   When did Harriet Martineau write her autobiography?

   • Harriet Martineau wrote her Autobiography in 1855 after being diagnosed with a heart condition. It was published after her death at her home in the Lake District in 1877. The text incorporates a number of genres of life-writing, including bildungsroman, spiritual quest, disability memoir, and intellectual history.

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   What impact did biographical writing have on Harriet Martineau?

   • Policies and ethics In this chapter, Logan explores the vexed impact of biographical writing on Harriet Martineau’s intellectual and literary legacies. Biographies reflect the attitudes and social mores of the time in which they are written, whether composed by an intimate friend...

   Harriet Martineau (1802–1876): Autobiography, Biography, and Literary

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   When did Harriet Martineau die?

   • Her lively and provocative Autobiography was written in 1855 but published posthumously in 1877. Despite two extended periods of ill-health, from 1839 10 1844, and from 1855 until her death, the last phase of Harriet Martineau’s career was as a journalist primarily for The Daily News (though she wrote for many other journals and papers].

   Harriet Martineau (1802-76) – Martineau Society

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   Why did Harriet and JM stop writing?

   • JM’s Daily News letters (December 30, 1884 and January 6, 1885) claimed the siblings’ correspondence ceased “because Harriet demanded that he destroy her letters. When he refused, she stopped writing” (Van Arsdel 119).

   Harriet Martineau (1802–1876): Autobiography, Biography, and Literary

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   Why did Harriet leave her father's house?

   • Harriet was by now the mother of a daughter little more than a year old and pregnant with another child. Abandoned and betrayed, she was forced to return to her father's house and suffer all the ignominy and social stigma that her husband might carelessly disdain, but she had no choice but to endure. Neither maid nor married, widow nor wife.

   'This Fatal Catastrophe': The Sad Life and Strange Death of Harriet Shelley

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9. www.lrb.co.uk › the-paper › v26Too late to die early - London Review of Books

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   Feb 5, 2004 · Convinced that she was ‘again ill, as hopelessly, and more certainly fatally’, this time from heart disease, Martineau set about writing both her life history and her own obituary at the age of 53 – only to survive for another 21 years.