Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts)

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"Believing herself to be suffering from 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 are "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."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

• Life in the Sick-Room (Broadview Literary Texts)PaperbackBroadview Press2003-03-14
• Life in the sick-roomE. Moxon1844-01-01
• Life in the sick-roomL.C. Bowles and W. Crosby1844-01-01
• Life in the sick-roomL.C. Bowles and W. Crosby1844-01-01
• Life in the sick-roomL.C. Bowles and W. Crosby1844-01-01
• Life in the sick-roomEdward Moxon...1844-01-01