HARRIET MARTINEAU'S LETTERS TO FANNY WEDGWOOD Edited with a preface and introduction By Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle. Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 1985. First edition, first printing. 1985 date printed to the title page. In her youth, Harriet Martineau wrote a series of widely read novels of social instruction. Later she authored the first systematic methodological treatise in sociology. This annotated collection of correspondence between two highly intelligent Victorian women and their family, offers 121 previously published letters. Fine in violet linen with silver embossed titles and decorations to the spine, blue and white headband and tail-band, smoke-black end-papers; lightly rubbed, nearly fine dust jacket. Octavo; 329 pages; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! "http://pics.ebay.com/aw/pics/viewitem/viewItemLogo_88x33.gif" border="0" align="top" Created by Seller's Assistant Basic. On Dec-11-03 at 18:03:08 PST, seller added the following information: