Complete Guide to the English Lakes, A.
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s copy of A Complete Guide to the English Lakes
Martineau, Harriet. A Complete Guide to the English Lakes. Windermere: John Garnett, [1858].
Small 8vo.; original green blind-stamped cloth; gilt title on spine and front cover reading “Harriet Martineau’s Guide to Windermere & the other English Lakes”; boards faded and slightly soiled.
Second edition; the “pocket edition” of the 4vo “Complete Guide” with a revised and extended text, illustrated frontispiece, large folding map, 12 steel-engraved vignettes, six outlines of mountains, and three engraved plates of hotels. Other additions to this edition include directory of residents, advertisements, a tribute to Christopher North, and the engraved plates. An association copy, inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne from British writer Henry Arthur Bright on front endpaper, “N. Hawthorne from H.A. Bright.” “Lpool society” is written in pencil on the verso. Bright and Hawthorne met in 1852 during Hawthorne's tenure as consul at Liverpool and become good friends; Hawthorne would eventually give Bright the 1859 working manuscript for his last novel, The Marble Faun, the only known papers relating to the work. We can find no associations between Hawthorne and Harriet Martineau beyond the pair being writing contemporaries.
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), often cited as the first female sociologist, was an English social theorist and author of more than 50 books. Martineau wrote prolifically on a wide range of topics, from political economy to philosophical atheism, from travel literature to her own autobiography. Her most popular books were Illustrations of Political Economy (1832) and Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated (1834), both designed as guides to politics and economics for the ordinary reader; her first novel, Deerbrook, was published in 1840. She was regarded highly as a scholar, and was close with such well-known individuals as Charles Darwin, George Eliot, John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Florence Nightingale, and Charlotte Bronte.
OCLC locates 19 copies of this edition in the United States; 4 copies in the U.K.
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