The Billow and the Rock
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About This Book
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was an English writer and philosopher, renowned in her day as a controversial journalist, political economist, abolitionist and life-long feminist. In 1821 she began to write anonymously for the Monthly Repository, a Unitarian periodical, and in 1823 she published Devotional Exercises and Addresses, Prayers and Hymns. She had to earn her living, and, being precluded by deafness from teaching, took up authorship in earnest. Besides reviewing for the Repository she wrote stories (afterwards collected as Traditions of Palestine), gained in one year (1830) three essay...
Chapters (40)(click to expand)
- Harriet Martineau "The Billow and the Rock"
- Chapter One.
- Lord and Lady Carse.
- Chapter Two.
- The Turbulent.
- Chapter Three.
- The Wrong Journey.
- Chapter Four.
- Newspapers.
- Chapter Five.
- Cross Roads and Short Seas.
- Chapter Six.
- The Steadfast.
- Chapter Seven.
- The Roving of the Restless.
- Chapter Eight.
- The Waiting of the Wise.
- Chapter Nine.
- The Cove.
- Chapter Ten.
- Which Refuge?
- Chapter Eleven.
- Folding the Flock.
- Chapter Twelve.
- The Steward on his Rounds.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- True Solitude.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Helsa’s news.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Annie’s news.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- Timely Evasion.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- The Lamp Burns.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- Openings.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- Free at last!
- The End.
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