Frances Wedgwood

Her mother was born Frances Mackintosh , daughter of the politician and author Sir James Mackintosh . Fanny was more worldly than her husband and enjoyed society and literary friends.

Some time after 1835 the Carlyles met Harriet Martineau . While Martineau took to Thomas, she found Jane coquettish and disliked her tendency to interrupt abstract philosophical conversations with little jokes & wanting notice.

JM probably knew her husband's friends Edward Jenner and William Hyde Wollaston ; she certainly knew and corresponded with John Yelloy . She was a friend on her own account of Margaret Bryan ,

HM 's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...

EG devoted considerable time to a new novel in 1851, but put it aside in December to work on Cranford. She took up Ruth again in April 1852. A sense of her...

She attended the coronation of Queen Victoria on 28 June 1838, standing on a railing in order to see more clearly. Later, she attended the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Harriet Martineau replied to the eight-year-old JW 's letter; Julia had asked her mother 's permission to write to her friend to tell Martineau how much she enjoyed her stories.