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Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman by Harriet Martineau; Maria Weston Chapman; Deborah Anna Logan is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau's Autobiography. While the triple-decker was a popular format of the era, the configuration of a two-volume autobiography authored by one and a one-volume biography written by another is unusual. Indeed, the work's publishing history reveals that, in reissues of the Autobiography, the Memorials volume was not reproduced; while some might claim that the problem is with the editor--American abolitionist Chapman--rather than the contents, the fact remains that the bulk of the volume consists of primary materials written by Martineau that are available nowhere else, published or archival. Chapman's participation in the project was originally conceived as supplemental, in the event that the ailing Martineau did not live long enough to complete her memoirs; as it happened, Martineau--who finished the two volumes and had them privately printed in 1855--lived another twenty-one years. Whereas the Autobiography records what Martineau called the "interior life" or subjective perspective on her career, Chapman's volume addressed the exterior by offering a biographical overview of

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Author

Harriet Martineau; Maria Weston Chapman; Deborah Anna Logan

Publisher

Lehigh University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781611462166

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, Memoir