Harriet Martineau

Life in the Sick-Room Harriet Martineau

Believing herself to be suffering from an incurable condition, Harriet Martineau wrote Life in the Sick-Room in 1844. In this work, which is both memoir and treatise, Martineau seeks to educate the healthy and ill alike on the spiritual and psychological dimensions of chronic suffering. This work occupies a crucial place in the culture of invalidism that prospered in Victorian England.