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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)
Essay 6: Harriet Martineau

Author: John Morley

Release Date: June 14, 2008 [EBook #25793]

Language: English

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CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. III.

ESSAY 6: HARRIET MARTINEAU

London

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1904

HARRIET MARTINEAU.

Introductory 175

Early days 178

Literary ordeal 180

Success of the Tales on Political Economy 181

Her feeling, not literary, but truly social 182

London Society (1832) 184

Character of her judgments on Men 187

The Whigs 188

Carlyle's influence 189

Interest in American slavery 192

Her first novel 194

The Atkinson Letters 196

Her new religious opinions 197

Eastern travels 199

Retirement to the Lakes 200

Her manner of life 202

Translation of Comte 204

Her right estimate of literary work 205

Her Biographic Sketches 208

Characteristics 210

HARRIET MARTINEAU.

In 1850 Charlotte Bronte paid a visit to Harriet Martineau at Ambleside,
and she wrote to her friends various emphatic accounts of her hostess.
'Without adopting her theories,' Miss Bronte said, 'I yet find a worth
and greatness in herself, and a consistency, benevolence, perseverance
in her practice, such as