...the merest pittance ; and at the time I, for one, was left destitute ; that is to say with exactly one shilling in my purse. The effect upon me of this...to write before breakfast, or in some private way [she had begun authorship, but, till now, when it was seen to be needful, it had not been openly pursued]...

...daughters would have joined heartily, if asked, in my conviction that it was one of the best tllings that ever happened to us. My mother and her daughters...some private way, had henceforth liberty to do my own workjn my own wayj. for .we. had lost our j | (gentility:" Many and many a time since have we said...

...she began a long day's literary labor in her own room. MRS. FENWICK MILLER : ' Harriet Martineau.' In a very short time, my two sisters at home and I...new freedom. I, who had been obliged to write before „ .py result of fam- breakfast, or in some private way, had ily loss of ' •" income. henceforth...

...she began a long day's literary labor in her own room. MRS. FENWICK MILLER : ' Harriet Martineau.' In a very short time, my two sisters at home and I...began to feel the blessing of a wholly new freedom. TT I, who had been obliged to write before Happy re- ' 6 suit of fam- breakfast, or in some private...

...seeming trouble was in reality a blessing in disguise. For (to use her own words) " I began to feal the blessing of a wholly new freedom. I, who had been...work in my own way, for we had lost our gentility." Instead of spending their lives in practising small economies and growing probably narrower every year,...

...Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, I, 128, et seq. Harriet was delighted to find that ruin brought her " the blessing of a wholly new freedom. I, who had been...work in my own way, for we had lost our gentility." 6 liarly hard by the social conventions which made it impossible for them to do anything for themselves....

...useful. The family's "pecuniary ruin" after the father's death in 1829 meant a gain of personal liberty: "I, who had been obliged to write before breakfast,...work in my own way; for we had lost our gentility" (vol. 1 : 142). 12 CfLife in the Woods: A Boy's Narrative of the Adventures of a Settler's Family in...

...The family's "pecuniary ruin" after the father's death in 1829 meant a gain of personal liberty: "1, who had been obliged to write before breakfast, or...work in my own way; for we had lost our gentility" (vol. 1 : 142). 12 CfLifein the Woods: A Boy's Narrative of the Adoentures of a Settler's Fannly tn...

...release, of autonomy, regarding work, within the context of the family's financial disaster in 1829: I, who had been obliged to write before breakfast,...work in my own way; for we had lost our gentility . . . but for that loss of money, we might have lived on in the ordinary provincial method of ladies...

...svincolata dalla sfera domestica riproduttiva tipicamente ottocentesca: "I began to feel the blessing of my freedom. I, who had been obliged to write before breakfast,...work in my own way; for we had lost our gentility" (Martineau, 1877: 142). La crisi economica e la conseguente necessità di mantenersi diventano pertanto...