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Fallenness, according to Logan, does not simply refer to women who have strayed form sexual morality; the ranks of the fallen include besides prostitutes and whores, needlewomen, alcoholics, blacks and harem women. All of these women are presented as fallen because all have, in some regard, failed to conform to the sexual \"\"norm\"\". In most cases, economic need was responsible for their failure to uphold the ideals of domesticity or motherhood that were so revered in 19th-century society. Exploring the writings of Victorian women, including Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskill, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Mary Prince, Logan presents characters who are victims of economics and class, gender and race. She utilizes primary texts from these Victorian writers as well as contemporary critics, such as Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar to provide the background on class and economic factors that contributed both to sexual deviancy from the ideal and to contemporary discourses about fallen women. Examining novels, short stories, poetry, and travel journals, Logan demonstrates the links between women writers and their fallen characters in all genres.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49571650863377,"sku":"GOR009942288","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826211755.jpg?v=1751297818"},{"product_id":"indian-ladies-magazine-book-deborah-anna-logan-9781472460585","title":"The Indian Ladies' Magazine","description":"The Indian Ladies' Magazine, published in Madras from 1901 to 1918 and from 1927 to 1938 by Kamala Satthianandhan, was one of the first women-edited periodicals in colonial India. Published in the language of the colonial rulers, it had as its intended readership women in both the East and the West. Deborah Anna Logan traces the magazine's publication history, contextualizing it within the socio-cultural evolution of Indian women, from the Victorian fin-de-siecle British Raj and the Edwardian New Woman through the comparative militancy of the Quit India movement. This evolution, Logan suggests, implicated a particular class of Indian women, specifically those educated in English-language studies, either through their privileged economic circumstances or their access to Christian mission schools. Logan's purpose is threefold: to examine the impact of The Indian Ladies Magazine during the crucial transition from the Raj to self-rule, to highlight the socio-cultural and political challenges that this period posed to newly literate Indian nationalist women; and to foreground a little-known but highly significant perspective on women's participation in the literary and socio-political histories of India's independence movement. 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Influences include Victorian, Edwardian, and Modern literature and culture as well as traditional Indian literature and culture during the late colonial, pre-independence period. More than a literary journal, this publication also addressed social reforms, from ladies' philanthropy to women's mission to women; the emergence of Indian identity politics in response to the nationalist and independence movements; the Indian Woman Question in the context of female education debates and shifting concepts of womanliness; cultural exchanges recorded by Indian travelers to America; and the emergence of Indian nationalism, between World Wars I and I, leading to independence. 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It is those uncollected articles that are the focus of this study and that compliment her earlier work by providing subsequent commentary on Ireland's post-famine, reconstruction period. Whereas Letters from Ireland (1852) is a structured, sociological travel memoir meant for both periodical and volume publication, and Endowed Schools (1858) addresses a specific aspect of Irish education reform, these articles chart the course of economic and social progress in post-famine Ireland in terms of industry, public works, economy, and agriculture. They also record the growth of Irish nationalism in America and Ireland, while exploring the question of Ireland's political representation during this crucial pre-independence period. Points highlighted in this study include Martineau's unshakable optimism about the economic and social recovery of post-famine Ireland, her steady refusal to consider repeal of the Union as a viable option for remedying Ireland's troubles, and her insistence that Ireland's problems were social, not political. Treating social issues as the primary ailment and politics as merely a symptom, Martineau's writing on these topics provides important insights into the challenges facing Ireland during its transition from a feudal society to a modern, independent nation during the period of the British Empire's greatest expansion and swift demise. There are five components comprising her writing on Ireland: Ireland (Illustrations of Political Economy, 1832); History of the Peace, 1849-51; Letters from Ireland (1852); Endowed Schools of Ireland (1858); and the Condition of Post-famine Ireland (1852-66). 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Emphasizing the pervasiveness of her literary influence, most of her books underwent multiple editions and translations, while her periodicals writing placed her at the forefront of the mass-media reading public. But it is her correspondence that best illustrates the breadth and depth of her sociocultural and intellectual contributions. In 1843, Martineau notoriously asserted control over her letters by insisting that her correspondents destroy or return them or else forfeit the epistolary relationship. Just as notoriously, an astonishing number of correspondents quietly refused to comply, resulting in more than two thousand extant pieces of correspondence. The materials in Harriet Martineau: Further Letters range from the 1820s through 1870s and include both private and professional correspondence, from brief notes to long discourses, addressing topics from domestic minutiae and personal health to national and international affairs. A key strength of this collection is its eclecticism, best seen in the letters to some of the most significant people in her life--Maria Weston Chapman, Jane Welsh Carlyle, James Martineau, Elizabeth Jesser Reid, and Henry Atkinson--the originals of which have been destroyed, lost, or are otherwise unavailable. Contextualizing as prolific and well-connected an individual as Harriet Martineau contributes directly to broader scholarship on the Victorian era, its prominent players, and the issues with which they grappled. Martineau was an interdisciplinary thinker and writer long before the term acquired its present popular currency--another factor accounting both for her posthumous unfashionability and her present renaissance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52477755031825,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52477756080401,"sku":"NLS9781611460872","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781611460872.jpg?v=1759846128"},{"product_id":"memorials-of-harriet-martineau-by-maria-weston-chapman-book-deborah-anna-logan-9781611462159","title":"Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman","description":"Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau's Autobiography. While the triple-decker was a popular format of the era, the configuration of a two-volume autobiography authored by one and a one-volume biography written by another is unusual. Indeed, the work's publishing history reveals that, in reissues of the Autobiography, the Memorials volume was not reproduced; while some might claim that the problem is with the editor-American abolitionist Chapman-rather than the contents, the fact remains that the bulk of the volume consists of primary materials written by Martineau that are available nowhere else, published or archival. Chapman's participation in the project was originally conceived as supplemental, in the event that the ailing Martineau did not live long enough to complete her memoirs; as it happened, Martineau-who finished the two volumes and had them privately printed in 1855-lived another twenty-one years. Whereas the Autobiography records what Martineau called the interior life or subjective perspective on her career, Chapman's volume addressed the exterior by offering a biographical overview of her friend's life and work, a record of her last decades, and a collection of posthumous memorials by those with whom her private and public lives intersected. Chapman's role was to take up the parallel thread of her exterior life, -to gather up and co-ordinate from the materials placed in my hands the illustrative facts and fragments by her omitted or forgotten; and to show . . . what no mind can see for itself, -the effect of its own personality on the world. 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