Spiritualists like ADLP
's uncle Jacob Dixon
believed that it was possible to contact the dead through mediums. Her many experiences with séances throughout her life convinced her that this was true, including one in...
Reception
Harriet Martineau
HM
won all three prizes in an essay competition held by the British and Foreign Unitarian Association
(later the Unitarian Association); the essays were published as The Essential Faith of the Universal Church.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. University of Michigan Press, 1980.