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Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing

Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing

Stephenson, Shelagh

Paperback

Series: Modern Plays

Plays

ISBN10: 1350011916
ISBN13: 9781350011915
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 1 2016
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

What you haven't realised is that I sew to aid my thought processes. Look - needle - stab - stitch - thought. Needle - stab - stitch - thought. So next time you see a woman demurely sewing a sampler, be very, very wary. God knows what she may be planning.

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was a social theorist who is often credited as being the first female sociologist. In Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing, Shelagh Stephenson depicts the great writer in a period of convalescence, living as an invalid by the sea in Tynemouth.

Shut off from her usual society, Harriet is visited by women of the locale; Impie, a recent widow who is using her new-found marital freedom to paint murals on the ceilings of her family home; Beulah, the daughter of a woman who'd been sold into slavery and escaped; and Jane, the housemaid, whose unfeted and unexpected gifts lift her out of domestic servitude and could help Harriet out of illness.

Harriet Martineau is a play about female self-reliance in a time of patriarchal dominance. Written by Shelagh Stephenson, it premiered at Live Theatre, Newcastle, in winter 2016.

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