Convalescence and Invalidism in Victorian Britain Volume II: The Opportunities of Invalidism

Volume II. The Opportunities of Invalidism

Acknowledgments

Introduction – volume II

Part 1: Travel and the Invalid

1. H. Matthews, The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland and France in the Years 1817, 1818 and 1819, (London: John Murray, 1820).

2. J. A. Symonds, ‘Davos in Winter’, Fortnightly Review, 30:139 (July 1878), pp. 74–87.

3. R. L. Stevenson, ‘Health and Mountains’, first published in Pall Mall Gazette (17 Feb. 1881), reprinted in Essays of Travel (London: Chatto and Windus, 1905), pp. 212–216.

4. R. L. Stevenson, ‘The Elements of Discord: Foreign’, A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa (London: Cassell and Company, 1892).

5. G. MacDonald, ‘An Invalid’s Winter in Algeria’, Good Words 5 (1864), pp. 793–99.

6. ‘A Voyage to Australia for Health’, Macmillan’s Magazine 49 (1884), pp. 412–18.

7. H. Blake, ‘Try the Bahamas’, Fortnightly Review 39 (Feb 1886), pp. 174–83.

Part 2: The Working Invalid

8. H. Martineau, ‘Fifth Period: To The Age of Forty-Three’ and ‘Tynemouth From the Sickroom Window,’ in M. W. Chapman (ed.), Autobiography, 3 vols (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co, 1877), vol 1, pp. 439–49, 456–60, 472–82.

9. F. Nightingale, ‘Notes on the Aboriginal Races of Australia’, Annual Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (York, September 1864) (London: N.P., 1865)

10. F. Nightingale, ‘Our Indian Stewardship’, The Nineteenth Century, 14:78 (August 1883), pp. 329–338.

11. C. Darwin, Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–1882. With Original Omissions Restored, ed. Nora Barlow (London: Collins, 1958), pp. 96–116. (Reproduced with permission from John van Wyhe, ed. 2002, The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, at http://darwin-online.org.uk/

Part 3. Fringe Medicines and Invalid Expertise

12. H. Martineau, Letters on Mesmerism, 2^nd edn (London: Edward Moxon, 1845).

13. T. M. Greenhow, Medical Report of the Case of Miss H— M— (London: Samuel Highley, 1845).

14. T. M. Greenhow, ‘Termination of the Case of Miss Harriet Martineau.’ The British Medical Journal, vol. 1, no. 850, 1877, pp. 449–50.

15. E. Bulwer-Lytton, ‘Confessions and Observations of a Water Patient’, New Monthly Magazine, 75 (September 1845), pp. 1–16.

16. R Lane, Life at the Water Cure, Or A Month at Malvern: A Diary (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1846).

17. Confessions of a Hypochondriac: Or, the Adventures of a Hypochondriac in Search of Health. By M.R.C.S. (London: Saunders and Otley, 1849), pp. 45-61, 269-310

18. ‘By Her Majesty's Letters Patent: Comfort for Invalids’, in The Lancet General Advertiser (22 March 1856).

19. ‘Ayer's Sarsaparilla: Purifies the Blood, Stimulates the Vital Functions, Restores and Preserves Health, and Infuses New Life and Vigor throughout the Whole System’, (Lowell, Mass.: Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co [1880–89?])

20. ‘All in Search of Health Should Wear Harness' Electropathic Belts: Scientifically Constructed for New Life and Vigor’, (London: Electropathic & Zander Institute, [1890?])

Part 4: The Inner Life of the Invalid

21. H. Martineau, ‘Temper’, in Life in the Sickroom: Essays by an Invalid. (London: Edward Moxon, 1844), pp. 126–145.

22. [F. Townsend], Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid (New York: John S. Taylor, 1851), pp. 9-29.

23. A. B. Ward, ‘The Invalid’s World’, Scribner’s Magazine, 5 (Jan. 1889), pp. 58–73.

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Hosanna Krienke is an Assistant Instructional Professor in the Honors College at the University of Wyoming, USA.