Harriet Martineau
By Miller, Florence Fenwick
Classic work by Miller, Florence Fenwick.
Table of Contents
THE CHILD AT HOME AND AT SCHOOL. When Louis XIV. of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, in 1688, a large number of the Protestants who were driven out of France by the impending p...
EARLY WOMANHOOD: DEVELOPING INFLUENCES. Old Norwich, in the early years of this century, was a somewhat exceptional place. It so chanced that besides the exclusiveness natural eve...
EARLIEST WRITINGS. Harriet Martineau's first attempt to write for publication was made in the same year that her acquaintance with Mr. Worthington was formed; in 1822, when she wa...
GRIEF STRUGGLE AND PROGRESS. The loss of pecuniary position did something more for Harriet Martineau besides opening the way to work in literature. The knowledge that she was now ...
THE GREAT SUCCESS. The work which had struggled into printed existence with such extreme difficulty raised its author at a bound to fame. Ten days after the publication of the fir...
FIVE ACTIVE YEARS. On the conclusion of the publication of the _Illustrations of Political Economy_, Harriet went to the United States, and travelled there for more than two years...
FIVE YEARS OF ILLNESS AND THE MESMERIC RECOVERY. Almost immediately after the publication of _Deerbrook_ Harriet started for a Continental tour. She was to escort an invalid cousi...
THE HOME LIFE. At forty-two years old, Harriet Martineau found herself free for the first time to form and take possession of a _home of her own_. Now, for the first time, she cou...
IN THE MATURITY OF HER POWERS. The book, published early in 1848, in which Harriet described her Egyptian, Desert and Palestine travels, was entitled _Eastern Life, Past and Prese...
to quote, merely as specimens of the perfection to which her literary style had at this time arrived. It is now a style of that clear simplicity which seems so easy to the reader, ...
IN RETREAT; JOURNALISM. Miss Martineau's health failed towards the end of 1854; and early in 1855, symptoms of a disorganized circulation became so serious that she went up to Lon...
THE LAST YEARS. Harriet Martineau had never gone the right way to work to become rich by literature. She had not chosen her subjects with a view to the mere monetary success she m...
biographies; and because there is nothing else so good, the volume is indispensable to library and study."--_Boston Evening Traveller._ "Another life of the great actress Rachel h...