Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing (Modern Plays)
Methuen Drama
ISBN13:
9781350011915
$17.47
What you haven't realised is that I sew to aid my thought processes. Look û needle û stab û stitch û thought. Needle û stab û stitch û 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 (1802û1876) 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.
- | Author: Shelagh Stephenson
- | Publisher: Methuen Drama
- | Publication Date: Nov 10, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 96 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Drama
- | ISBN-10: 1350011916
- | ISBN-13: 9781350011915
- Author:
- Shelagh Stephenson
- Publisher:
- Methuen Drama
- Publication Date:
- Nov 10, 2016
- Number of pages:
- 96 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Drama
- ISBN-10:
- 1350011916
- ISBN-13:
- 9781350011915