Being ‘excluded from the world of sound’: Deafness, Invalidism and Resilience in Harriet Martineau’s Writings (1834–1855) by Manuela D’Amore

“…In fact, she immediately started from the feelings that she associated with the pleasures of sound and music. Before she lost her hearing as a young adolescent, she enjoyed singing and ‘was never out of tune’: it was only after she became fully aware of her disability that she urged her ‘fellow sufferers’ to trust even experimental science to gain ‘every breath of sound’ and play an active role in the public sphere. …”
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