Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History and Military Reform

Deborah Logan is associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University. Her work on Harriet Martineau includes a literary biography, The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau's 'somewhat remarkable' Life (2002) and she is the editor of Writings on Slavery and the American Civil War by Harriet Martineau (2002) and Harriet Martineau's illustrations of Political Economy. Selected Tales (2004). Kathryn Skiar is at SUNY Binghamton

'will allow scholars to reanalyze her influence on historiography as it was shaped by women in the 19th century. Recommended' CHOICE

• Volumes 1-5 History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854. With an introduction 1800 to 1815 (1864) Volume 1 begins with the year 1790 telling the story of the aftermath of the French revolution and the Napoleonic wars. Volumes 2-5, cover a period known as the thirty years' peace which became, unofficially, the forty years' peace. This was a fascinating period which saw, amongst other things, the impact of industrialism on society, the 1832 Reform Bill, the rise and fall of Chartism and the famine years in Ireland . Volume 6 England and her Soldiers (1859); Daily News leaders on sanitary reform in the armed forces: 'Army Hygiene' (14 January 1859 and 18 January 1859); 'Royal Commission on the Sanitary Condition of the Army' (26 January 1859); 'Reconstitution of the Army Medical Department' ( 11 February 1859 ); 'An appeal to the Minister of War: Why the Delay?'(16 February 1859); 'Sanitary reform for preventable epidemic disease as a matter of national security' (5 March 1859); 'Sidney Herbert and barrack reform' (27 June 1859); 'Overview of sanitary reform in the military in Review of the Year' (31 December 1859); 'Health in the Camps', 'Health in the Hospitals', Atlantic Monthly (1861); Previously unpublished correspondence between Martineau and Florence Nightingale addressing health, illness, mortality, preventable disease, and nationalism; Selections from Once a Week: 'Florence Nightingale's Latest Charity' (15 August 1863); 'The Training of Nurses' (30 June 1860); '3 Woman's Battlefield' (3 December 1859); 'The Soldier and Sailor: Their Health' (5 January 1861); 'Nurses Wanted', Cornhill Magazine (1865); 'Miss Nightingale's Notes on Nursing', Quarterly Review (1860).