Robert Kiefer Webb

Feminist Florence Fenwick Miller , in a Sunday lecture in the year following HM 's death, represented her as one of the shining lights of our time, whose life was one of the most remarkable...

HM 's biographer R. K. Webb argues that her intellectual and political positions flowed quite logically from her family's business and religious interests: from a kind of radicalism typical of the industrial north. This gave...

HM 's biographer R. K. Webb notes that she is far from agreeing with Comte on a number of points: she maintains a marked silence here and elsewhere on his belief in female subordination.

Webb explains the attraction for Martineau of Atkinson's thinking (which he calls second-rate). Both had long held an intense if woolly vision of the future, a future in which alienations from society (their own included)...

Mesmerism was thoroughly in line with HM 's philosophical beliefs, insofar as it denied the separation of mind and body and sought to discover natural laws governing humanity and tending towards its regeneration. The phreno-magnetists...

It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson 's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau , although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her.HM

HM published much of her intellectual work in the form of letters. Her personal letters, however, she strove mightily to control. She lamented in her Autobiography: How could human beings ever open their hearts...