It was reprinted as a book in 1850. JMR
was probably an editor of The People's Periodical and Family Library as well as a contributor. Although this original version of A String of Pearls features...
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Harriet Martineau
HM
had been surprised, on encountering Jane Marcet
's Conversations of Political Economy in autumn 1827, to discover that she herself had been teaching political economy unawares in two early stories, The Rioters and The...
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Harriet Martineau
Before the end of the year that saw the first volume in print, Mary Russell Mitford
had heard (though it was probably an exaggeration) that HM
had made more than £1,000 from those little eighteen-penny...
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Harriet Martineau
She was angered by Fox
's demand, which she saw as greedy, to profit from this work at the same rate as from Illustrations of Political Economy, and further infuriated when he threatened litigation...