Swanwick, Anna. Poets the Interpreters of their Age. George Bell, 1892.
prelims
James Martineau
Standard Name: Martineau, James
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Anne Steele | Reprints and anthologies since this edition have maintained AS
's place in the American hymn tradition; the biographical material accompanying them has spread the impression of her as an exaggeratedly pious ideal. Editions include Hymns... |
| Anthologization | Anna Letitia Waring | Many of ALW
's hymns appeared in popular hymnbooks, which was extremely beneficial to her reputation. These books include the Leeds Hymn Book in 1853, the American Unitarian Hymn Book for Church and Home in... |
| Cultural formation | Anna Swanwick | She was born into a business family in that great and busy port, and brought up a Liberal and a Unitarian
. In 1831 James Martineau
became the Minister at the chapel in Paradise Street... |
| Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | JW
was born into that section of the English professional class which functioned as an intellectual and cultural elite. She was connected through her family with other Victorians strongly committed to spiritual and moral inquiry... |
| Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
| Cultural formation | Harriet Martineau | The English Martineaus came from French Huguenot stock: the first member of the family (according to HM
herself) had settled in Norwich in 1688. She made a point, in a correction to the information provided... |
| Dedications | Anna Swanwick | She dedicated it to James Martineau
in honour of their friendship of sixty years. |
| Education | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were active in the founding of Queen's College
in May 1848. There and at Bedford College
, JW
attended lectures by F. D. Maurice
and Francis Newman
. James Martineau
was also an influence. Herford, Charles Harold, and Julia Wedgwood. “Frances Julia Wedgwood: A Memoir by the Editor”. The Personal Life of Josiah Wedgwood the Potter, Macmillan, 1915, p. xi - xxx. xv-xvi Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Martineau | Harriet was closest to her younger brother James
, whose arrival she remembered with great clarity though she was less than three years old at the time. These two were frequently bullied by older siblings.... |
| 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, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235. xxx |
| Friends, Associates | Anna Swanwick | AS
's circle of friends (very largely brought her by her translations) included Henry Crabb Robinson
, Tennyson
, Robert Browning
(who told her he wished she had known his wife), James Martineau
(brother of... |
| 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 | FPC
was a friend of Emily Faithfull
, Geraldine Jewsbury
, and Rosa Bonheur
, and she knew Josephine Butler
, Augusta Webster
, Lady Battersea
, Emily Pfeiffer
, Anne Thackeray Ritchie
, Helen Taylor |
| 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... |
| Instructor | Anna Swanwick | AS
began attending lectures given by James Martineau
in Liverpool on Mental and Moral Philosophy. Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903. 23 |
Timeline
1 February 1845: The first issue of the Prospective Review:...
Writing climate item
1 February 1845
The first issue of the Prospective Review: A Quarterly Journal of Theology and Literature was published.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 337, 339-41, 347
July 1855: The first issue of the National Review was...
Writing climate item
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.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 144
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
3: 135-7, 142, 144, 147
21 April 1869: The Metaphysical Society was founded; women...
Building item
21 April 1869
The Metaphysical Society
was founded; women were excluded.
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
190
Texts
Martineau, James. “Mesmeric Aetheism”. Prospective Review, Vol.
7
, No. 26, 1851, pp. 224-62.