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Project Gutenberg's Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), by John Morley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 6: Harriet Martineau Author: John Morley Release Date: June 14, 2008 [EBook #25793] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CRITICAL MISCELLANIES *** Produced by Paul Murray, Kit Ellis and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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
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