Fredrika Bremer

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...

Closest to CMS were her siblings and their spouses, several of whom were also published authors. The Sedgwick family and Fanny Kemble were apparently the inner circle of the literary scene in the Berkshires,...

Mary Russell Mitford wrote disapprovingly of HM 's claims: I see no good in these experiments.Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna 's pamphlet Mesmerism: A Letter to Miss Martineau, argued that if the account...

She was educated mostly abroad, and as a young woman travelled through Egypt, Palestine, and Greece preparatory to writing a biography of Fredrika Bremer . She converted to Catholicism well before her mother. After living...