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Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts)

Harriet Martineau
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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.

Excerpt:
Although this work, which cannot fail to be a blessing to humanity, had no name attached to it, yet every line of it so proclaimed its author, that the effort to be lost in her subject was vain. All those in England who read it, found their thoughts and their hearts visiting, with grateful love, the sick-room of her to whom Milnes addressed these beautiful lines in the 'Liberty Bell' for 1843:
To Harriet Martineau.
Christian Endurance.
By Richard Monceton Milnes, M. P. For Pontefract.
Mortal! that standest on a point of time,
With an eternity on either hand,
Thou hast one duty above all sublime,
Where thou art placed, serenely there to stand.
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1551112655
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9781551112657
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1551112655

Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts)

Harriet Martineau
3.22/5 (44 ratings)
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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.

Excerpt:
Although this work, which cannot fail to be a blessing to humanity, had no name attached to it, yet every line of it so proclaimed its author, that the effort to be lost in her subject was vain. All those in England who read it, found their thoughts and their hearts visiting, with grateful love, the sick-room of her to whom Milnes addressed these beautiful lines in the 'Liberty Bell' for 1843:
To Harriet Martineau.
Christian Endurance.
By Richard Monceton Milnes, M. P. For Pontefract.
Mortal! that standest on a point of time,
With an eternity on either hand,
Thou hast one duty above all sublime,
Where thou art placed, serenely there to stand.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
1st Edition......, First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
1551112655
ISBN13:
9781551112657
kindle Asin:
1551112655

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