"Speaking of Romance ...": The Power of the Female Voice in Harriet Martineau's Deerbrook

Authors

  • Jennifer Yates

Keywords:

Deerbrook, Harriet Martineau, voice, Charlotte Bronte, Victorian literature, gossip, fiction

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References

Favret, Mary A. Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1972.

Martineau, Harriet. Deerbrook. London: Virago, 1983.

Nightingale, Florence. Cassandra and Other Selections for Thought. Ed. Mary Poovey. London: Pickering, 1991.

Parker, Roszika. The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and The Making of the Feminine. London: Women's Press, 1984.

Sanders, Valerie, ed. Harriet Martineau: Selected Letters. Oxford: Clarendon, 1990.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Gossip. New York: Knopf, 1985.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Talk and Talkers. London: Chatto, 1914.

Tebbutt, Melanie. Women's Talk?: A Social History of Gossip in Working-Class Neighbourhoods, 1880- 1960. England: Scolar, 1995.

Yates, Gayle Graham. Harriet Martineau on Women. New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1985.

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Published

2020-06-11

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (1997): The Victorians and Romance

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