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‘I shall shift my trumpet and take up my knitting’: Disability, Sex, and Self-Assertion in the Autobiography of Harriet Martineau

Posted on 12th December 2022 by Emma Claire Sweeney

Today on the blog, we welcome our colleague Clare Walker Gore, who has recently joined us as a Lecturer in Victorian Literature. Clare offers us a glimpse into her research interests by sharing insights into the multiple ways nineteenth-century writer Harriet … Continue reading →

Posted in Research | Tagged and Self-Assertion, Autobiography of Harriet Martineau, Clare Walker Gore, deafness, Disability, Essay on the Principle of Population, Harriet Martineau, Illustrations of Political Economy, John Lockhart, Letter to the Deaf, Margaret Oliphant, Open University English and Creative Writing, Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth Century Novel, Quarterly Review, Sex, Thomas Robert Malthus, Victorian Literature | 4 Comments
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