James Martineau

Standard Name: Martineau, James

Connections

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Travel Harriet Martineau
While visiting her brother James in Dublin, HM became aware of the Irish problem; she later developed her thoughts on this question in texts such as The History of England During the Thirty...
Textual Production Anna Swanwick
Meanwhile her former pastor James Martineau had written to praise her poetry and to suggest that she should translate into English a young and little-known German poet, Ferdinand Freiligrath , a Prussian political exile in...
Residence Fanny Kingsley
FK was still in frail health after her husband's death, so James Martineau organized all of the family's affairs. FK spent a short time at Byfleet in Surrey, where she wrote her two-volume biography...
politics Emily Davies
ED 's petition was a request for funding to establish a College for women. It was signed by 521 teachers of girls and 175 others, including Robert Browning , George Grote , Thomas Huxley ,...
Occupation Lucy Toulmin Smith
Manchester College (now Harris Manchester College ) had a long and distinguished history as a Dissenting institution (including spells at York and London) before it moved to Oxford in 1889 and into new buildings...
Occupation Fanny Kingsley
FK took an active position as the wife of a Rector at Eversley. When the couple arrived, the seventeenth-century rectory was in disrepair, and flooded in heavy rain. Brenda Colloms notes that, nevertheless, there...
Occupation Mary Augusta Ward
In the wake of Robert Elsmere's success, MAW sought to prove the feasibility of the New Brotherhood which she had described in her novel through the foundation of a similar philanthropic organisation. As she...
Literary responses Harriet Martineau
James Martineau published a scathing attack on the book in the Prospective Review under the title Mesmeric Atheism. He poured scorn on the authors for believing that one can legitimately reach the doctrines of...
Literary responses Frances Power Cobbe
It was recommended to James Martineau by Francis W. Newman , brother of the famous tractarian , as a revelation of a pure, tender, ardent spirit.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press.
81
It was reviewed alongside Francis Newman 's Theism...
Literary responses George Eliot
James Martineau , however, writing in the Westminster Review, praised the work of the lady-translator but decried her decision to translate an atheist, and one of quite secondary philosophical repute.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton.
125
Literary responses Anna Letitia Waring
James Martineau wrote to Waring on 4 April 1873, seeking permission to publish her works in his hymnbook: he said he was anxious to enrich it with some pieces . . . which have long...
Leisure and Society Anna Swanwick
One of the activities she pursued while others slept was knitting: she knitted a scarf for James Martineau which he called a genuine Kunst-work, or work of art.
Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin.
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Intertextuality and Influence Anne Brontë
James Martineau and Dr Hunter formed a hymn beginning Spirit of Faith! be thou my guide by extracting twenty-four lines from AB 's The Three Guides.
Brontë, Anne, and Charles William Hatfield. The Complete Poems of Anne Brontë. Editor Shorter, Clement, Hodder and Stoughton.
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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Gaskell
The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG 's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Martineau
Just at the point when she become a published author, HM 's questioning of her Unitarian faith was troubled by a desire to reconcile herself to God's power and benevolence.
Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago.
1: 108
She found an...

Timeline

1 February 1845: The first issue of the Prospective Review:...

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1 February 1845

The first issue of the Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature was published.

July 1855: The first issue of the National Review was...

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July 1855

The first issue of the National Review was published; it became the most celebrated Unitarian periodical and one of the most illustrious quarterlies of the century.

21 April 1869: The Metaphysical Society was founded; women...

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21 April 1869

The Metaphysical Society was founded; women were excluded.

Texts

Martineau, James. “Mesmeric Aetheism”. Prospective Review, Vol.
7
, No. 26, pp. 224-62.