Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts) Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Martineau, Harriet
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- Title Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts)
- Author Martineau, Harriet
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 260
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Broadview Press Inc, Peterborough
- Date March 14, 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1551112655.G
- ISBN 9781551112657 / 1551112655
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 8.43 x 5.43 x 0.63 in (21.41 x 13.79 x 1.60 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003274444
- Dewey Decimal Code 170
From the rear cover
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.