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sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 1 LIFE IN THE SICK-ROOM sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 2 sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 3 LIFE IN THE SICK-ROOM Harriet Martineau edited by Maria H.Frawley broadview literary texts sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 4 ©Maria H.Frawley. All rights reserved.The use of any part of this publication reproduced,transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording,orotherwise,or stored in a retrieval system,without prior written consent of the publisher – or in the case of photocopying, a licence from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency),One Yonge Street,Suite , Toronto, – is an infringement of the copyright law. National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Martineau,Harriet,- Life in the sick-room / Harriet Martineau ;edited by Maria Frawley. (Broadview literary texts) Includes bibliographical references. --- .Invalids—Conduct of life. .Martineau,Harriet,-—Health. I.Frawley,Maria H.,- . II.Title. 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Series editor:Professor L.W.Conolly Advisory editor for this volume:Professor Eugene Benson Text design and composition by George Kirkpatrick PRINTED IN CANADA sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 5 M M (By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery,London.) sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 6 sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 7 Contents Acknowledgements • Introduction • Harriet Martineau:A Brief Chronology • A Note on the Text • Life in the Sick-Room • Appendix A:Introduction to the American Edition of Life in the Sick-Room • Appendix B:Contemporary Reviews of Life in the Sick-Room . The Christian Examiner (March ) • . The Dublin University Magazine (May ) • . Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine (January ) • . British and Foreign Medical Review () • Appendix C:Harriet Martineau and the Medical Profession . “Medical Report of The Case of Miss H— M——,”by T.M. Greenhow () • . “Termination of the Case of Miss Harriet Martineau,”by Thomas M. Greenhow () • . Selected Correspondence with Dr. Peter Mere Latham () • Appendix D:Harriet Martineau and Autobiographical Writing . From Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography () • . From “An Autobiographic Memoir”() • Appendix E:Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale . Selected Correspondence (-) • . From Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing () • . From Quarterly Review (April ) • Appendix F:Harriet Martineau and Health Writing . “Letter to the Deaf”() • . From Letters on Mesmerism () • sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 8 Appendix G:Additional Examples of Sickroom Literature . From Letters from a Sick Room () • . From Devotions for the Sick Room () • . From Occasional Poems:By an Invalid () • Works Cited and Recommended Reading • sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 9 Acknowledgements I began this project while at Elizabethtown College and give thanks to Joyce Ney for her help in the earliest stages of preparing this edition. A General University Research grant from the University of Delaware provided the support for me to travel to London to access the manuscript of Life in the Sick-Room at the Fawcett Library and to work in Harriet Martineau archives in Britain.Special thanks go to Anna Greening,Jennifer Haynes,and the wonderful staff at the Fawcett Library in London for facilitat- ing my work with the manuscript. Archivists at the Bodleian Library and the Dr. Williams’Library also provided essential help in working with materials relevant to this project. Christine Penney and Martin Killeen at the University of Birmingham Library were generous with their time in helping me track down information related to their wonderful collection, The Papers of Harriet Martineau -. I want also to express my apprecia- tion to Richard Makepeace Martineau and to Imogen Harriet Martineau for their generous communication and for their will- ingness to grant permission to have a photograph taken of the manuscript. Catherine Flood from the Mary Evans Picture Library worked efficiently to facilitate photographic reproduc- tion. Permission to quote from Martineau’s correspondence has been granted by the Bodleian Library,the British Library,and the University Library,and will be cited at specific points within this edition. Thanks of a different sort go to the many students who have helped me track down information about Harriet Martineau; I am especially grateful to Cheryl Horton, Kathryn Miele, and Jason Weinberg for their efforts. I am grateful,also,to the many colleagues with whom I have discussed Martineau and her identi- ty as an invalid, especially Sally Mitchell, Patrick Leary, Alison Winter,Deborah Logan,and Alexis Easley. Members of VICTO- RIA,the internet discussion list,provided detailed information on numerous issues related to Martineau, her contemporaries, and Victorian medicine. I thank all those with whom I have worked at Broadview Press for their patience and encouragement. - sr-front 15/1/2003 3:27 PM Page 10 Finally, I thank my family for their help over the years. My parents, Barton and Sabrena Hinkle, have always encouraged me in my work. My husband, Bill Frawley, has been both generous and patient with his help. My children, Christopher and Emma Frawley,have kept me sane and happy.
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