Harriet Martineau's Autobiography

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. x, 594pp; vi, 596pp. Two volumes in publisher's brown cloth. Hinges of volume one starting, extremities lightly worn with some spotting to the spine an a small scrape in the middle of two, else a very good set. Autobiography is a work of singular candor and intellectual resolve, a testament to a life spent in fearless pursuit of truth. With an unsparing eye, she recounts her struggles against illness, societal constraint, and the prejudices that sought to silence women of her time.