HM
's earliest memories were not of her mother Elizabeth Martineau
née Rankin, but rather of a rural cottage where she was sent to be wet-nursed. Elizabeth, the daughter of a Newcastle sugar-refiner, did not...
HM
moved into a house at 17 Fludyer Street Westminster with her mother
and her aunt Lee.
Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.
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Wealth and Poverty
Harriet Martineau
After struggling for four years, HM
's family was forced to close its manufacturing business. She, her sisters, and her mother
thereby lost the income from the money they had invested in the enterprise.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
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Martineau, Harriet. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Selected Letters, edited by Valerie Sanders, Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. vii - xxxiii, 235.