{"product_id":"shelagh-stephenson-harriet-martineau-dreams-of-dancing-9781350011915","title":"Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing","description":"What you haven't realised is that I sew to aid my thought processes. Look - needle - stab - stitch - thought. Needle - stab - stitch - 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 (1802-1876) 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.","brand":"Bloomsbury 3PL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53715306512726,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781350011915_1_5d30e003-1fdd-44a4-9c89-212dc2b29473.jpg?v=1781767180","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/shelagh-stephenson-harriet-martineau-dreams-of-dancing-9781350011915","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}