James Martineau

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...

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. She found an...

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

It was recommended to James Martineau by Francis W. Newman , brother of the famous tractarian , as a revelation of a pure, tender, ardent spirit. It was reviewed alongside Francis Newman 's Theism...

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...

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...

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...

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 ,...

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...

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...