James Martineau

The English Martineaus came from French Huguenot stock: the first member of the family (according to HM herself) had settled in Norwich in 1688. She made a point, in a correction to the information provided...

Harriet was closest to her younger brother James , whose arrival she remembered with great clarity though she was less than three years old at the time. These two were frequently bullied by older siblings....

She had a difficult journey home. Her brother James accompanied her, and several friends—Julia Smith (also an abolitionist and the aunt of Florence Nightingale ), who had been her travelling companion along with her...

After her brother James 's hostile review of Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and DevelopmentHM broke off all communication with him. She does not refer to this directly in her Autobiography.

Just at the point when she become a published author, HM 's questioning of her Unitarian faith was troubled by a desire to reconcile herself to God's power and benevolence. She found an...

In 1834 HM published Letter to the Deaf in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Around 1837 she was asked to take charge of an Economical Magazine at a good salary, which she thought opened the prospect...

James Martineau published a scathing attack on the book in the Prospective Review under the title Mesmeric Atheism. He poured scorn on the authors for believing that one can legitimately reach the doctrines of...

FK was still in frail health after her husband's death, so James Martineau organized all of the family's affairs. FK spent a short time at Byfleet in Surrey, where she wrote her two-volume biography...

FK took an active position as the wife of a Rector at Eversley. When the couple arrived, the seventeenth-century rectory was in disrepair, and flooded in heavy rain. Brenda Colloms notes that, nevertheless, there...

The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG 's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to...

James Martineau , however, writing in the Westminster Review, praised the work of the lady-translator but decried her decision to translate an atheist, and one of quite secondary philosophical repute.

ED 's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning , George Grote , Thomas Huxley ,...

By this point in her life she was corresponding regularly with Frank Newman (younger brother of Cardinal Newman and of Harriett Mozley , who was an agnostic for most of his life). James Martineau ...

FPC was a friend of Emily Faithfull , Geraldine Jewsbury , and Rosa Bonheur , and she knew Josephine Butler , Augusta Webster , Lady Battersea , Emily Pfeiffer , Anne Thackeray Ritchie , Helen Taylor

It was recommended to James Martineau by Francis W. Newman , brother of the famous tractarian , as a revelation of a pure, tender, ardent spirit. It was reviewed alongside Francis Newman 's Theism...