Caroline Roberts.

Caroline Roberts. The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Pres 2002 Pp x 253 $5000 ISBN 0-8020-3596-5

in what way do we account for the revival of scholarly interest in Harriet Martineau? Revisionary work in the late 80 and 90 by means of high-profile Victorianists (among them Deirdre David in her 1987 work Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot and Linda H Peterson in work of that kind as Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography, 1999) no doubt played a

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