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Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts)

By Harriet Martineau , Maria H. Frawley (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Broadview Press
Year
2003
ISBN
1551112655, 9781551112657
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2279046 bytes)
Pages
260\260
Time added
2022-02-25 09:04:54

Description

Believing herself to be suffering from an incurable condition, Harriet Martineau wrote Life in the Sick-Room in 1844. In this work, which is both memoir and treatise, Martineau seeks to educate the healthy and ill alike on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of chronic suffering. Covering such topics as “Sympathy to the Invalid,” “Temper,” and “Becoming Inured,” the work occupies a crucial place in the culture of invalidism that prospered in Victorian England. This Broadview edition also includes medical documents pertaining to Martineau’s case; other writings on health by Martineau; excerpts from her other autobiographical writings; selected correspondence with Florence Nightingale; excerpts from contemporary works of sick-room literature; and reviews.

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