The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Caroline Roberts. The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2002. Pp. x, 253. $50.00. ISBN 0-8020-3596-5.

How do we account for the revival of scholarly interest in Harriet Martineau? Revisionary work in the late 80s and 90s by high-profile Victorianists (among them Deirdre David in her 1987 work Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot and Linda H. Peterson in work such as Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography, 1999) no doubt played a major ...

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