{"product_id":"harriet-martineau-dreams-of-dancing-9781350011915","title":"Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Shelagh Stephenson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat you haven't realised is that I sew to aid my thought processes. Look - \u003c\/i\u003eneedle \u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e stab - stitch - thought. Needle - stab \u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e stitch \u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e thought. \u003ci\u003eSo next time you see a woman demurely sewing a sampler, be very, very wary. God knows what she may be planning.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHarriet Martineau (1802-1876) was a social theorist who is often credited as being the first female sociologist. In \u003ci\u003eHarriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e, Shelagh Stephenson depicts the great writer in a period of convalescence, living as an invalid by the sea in Tynemouth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarriet Martineau\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45084117532823,"sku":"9781350011915","price":1530.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781350011915.webp?v=1767142702","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/harriet-martineau-dreams-of-dancing-9781350011915","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}