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Life in the Sick Room
Harriet Martineau
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Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick person's place and not the doctor's. Sick people were able and willing to decide what is best for them. In England and abroad, people declared that "a sick person cannot write a healthy book" and that Harriet Martineau was definitely out of her senses. It would be interesting to see how much has changed.
Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick person's place and not the doctor's. Sick people were able and willing to decide what is best for them. In England and abroad, people declared that "a sick person cannot write a healthy book" and that Harriet Martineau was definitely out of her senses. It would be interesting to see how much has changed.
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3.5 stars. Martineau shares the lessons she’s learned about life, the power of ideas and intellectual pursuits, morality, the soul’s immortality, and more from her perspective and position as a sufferer of chronic illness.
"You languish -- you are sick at heart. But put your sickness from your heart, and your pains under your feet. You have known before that there is a divine joy in endurance. Prove it now. Lift up your head amidst your lot, and wait the issue -- not submissively, but heroically. Live out your season,
I read this collection for my dissertation but I didn’t realise I would relate to it on such a deep level! It felt like Martineau was articulating my own experiences with pain and suffering - not a 19th century woman’s. It was great and would def recommend!