By Shelagh Stephenson
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) used to be a social theorist who's frequently credited as being the 1st woman sociologist. In Harriet Martineau desires of Dancing, Shelagh Stephenson depicts the good author in a interval of convalescence, dwelling as an invalid via the ocean in Tynemouth.
Shut off from her ordinary society, Harriet is visited through ladies of the locale; Impie, a contemporary widow who's utilizing her new-found marital freedom to color work of art at the ceilings of her kinfolk domestic; Beulah, the daughter of a lady who'd been offered into slavery and escaped; and Jane, the housemaid, whose unfeted and unforeseen presents carry her out of household servitude and will support Harriet out of illness.
Harriet Martineau is a play approximately girl self-reliance in a time of patriarchal dominance. Written by means of Shelagh Stephenson, it premiered at stay Theatre, Newcastle, in iciness 2016.
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