James Martineau

Standard Name: Martineau, James

Connections

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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.
128
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
By this point in her life she was corresponding regularly with Frank Newman (younger brother of Cardinal Newman and of Harriett Mozley , who was an agnostic for most of his life). James Martineau ...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
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...
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 ,...
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
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...
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...
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...
Health Harriet Martineau
She had a difficult journey home. Her brother James accompanied her, and several friends—Julia Smith (also an abolitionist and the aunt of Florence Nightingale ), who had been her travelling companion along with her...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Martineau
After her brother James 's hostile review of Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and DevelopmentHM broke off all communication with him. She does not refer to this directly in her Autobiography.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
xxx
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Martineau
In 1834 HM published Letter to the Deaf in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Around 1837 she was asked to take charge of an Economical Magazine at a good salary, which she thought opened the prospect...
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...
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...

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.