The Athenæum's editor, Charles Wentworth Dilke
, commissioned a reply that was attributed to the president of the Royal College of Surgeons
, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie
. The response argued that HM
was...
Publishing
Harriet Martineau
After a skirmish with Dilke
over whether the Athenæum could claim copyright on the letters, HM
, who had accepted no payment from him, published them in book form with Moxon
.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
2: 197
Reception
Catherine Gore
In her preface she notes that these stories were written before these Reform Bill,
Copeland, Edward. “Virgin Sacrifice: Elizabeth Bennet <span data-tei-ns-tag="">After</span> Jane Austen”. Persuasions, Vol.
22
, pp. 156-74.
203-4
and argues that silver-fork or fashionable novels have a value for the successful exposure of vices and follies daily and...
Timeline
2 January 1828: The first issue of the Athenæum, founded...