This edition of her Autobiography reproduces the original 1877 text, which Martineau composed in 1855 and had printed in anticipation of her death.

Deerbrook portrays the failed love affair between Edward Hope, a local physician and Margaret Ibbotson, his sister-in-law.

In 1834 she wrote the first draft of How to Observe Manners and Morals--perhaps the earliest book on the methodology of social research.

Originally published in 1838, this book serves as a pioneering work in the field of social observation and ethnography.