Too late to die early
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Virginia Woolf and Harriet Martineaun in the sick room, 5 February 2004
Life in the Sick-Room
by Harriet Martineau, edited by Maria Frawley.
Broadview, 260 pp., £8.99, March 2003,1 55111 265 5 Show More
by Harriet Martineau, edited by Maria Frawley.
Broadview, 260 pp., £8.99, March 2003,
On Being Ill
by Virginia Woolf, edited by Hermione Lee.
Paris Press, 28 pp., £15, October 2002,1 930464 06 1 Show More
by Virginia Woolf, edited by Hermione Lee.
Paris Press, 28 pp., £15, October 2002,
“... hopes’ of their comforters: ‘Everything but truth becomes loathed in a sick-room.’ Maria Frawley calls Life in the Sick-Room a ‘hybrid’ text, ‘part memoir, part treatise’, but anyone who has wandered through a modern bookstore would recognise the genre: advice for the sick by a fellow sufferer. From Living Well with ... ”
