A Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Engaging with her Times: Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) By Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle
©The copyright for this work is held by Michael Arbuckle (son of the author). He granted its publication on the Martineau Society website in digital form in 2019 and for it to be made accessible through the National Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1 2DB. He should be contacted at < [email protected]> regarding any further reproduction.
CONTENTS
PART 1: EARLY LIFE AND CELEBRITY (1802-1834)
Chapter 1: Harriet Martineau Grows Up in Norwich (1802-1819)
Chapter 2: Young Adulthood (1819-1824)
Chapter 3: Hard Times: Financial Losses and Death of Thomas Martineau (1824-1826)
Chapter 4: New Challenges: Harriet’s Marriage Proposal and Elizabeth’s Quarrels with Tom’s Widow, Helen (1826-1827)
Chapter 5: The Monthly Repository: Martineau Gains Confidence and Extends the Range of Her Writings (1827-1832)
Chapter 6: Success in London: Martineau Creates a “Political Economy” Series and Becomes a Celebrity (1832-1833)
Chapter 7: The Series Continues; the Poor Law Tales (1833-1834)
Chapter 8: Last of the Series a Let-down, but Martineau’s Reputation Intact (1834)
PART II: AMERICAN CONNECTIONS, INVALIDISM (1834-1843)
Chapter 9: Harriet Martineau Discovers America (1834)
Chapter 10: Dangerous Journeying in the South (1835)
Chapter 11: Additional Americans; New Orleans, Paddle-Steaming up the Mississippi River (1835)
Chapter 12: Travelling on Land, the Mammoth Cave, New Friends in the Middle-West (1835)
Chapter 13: Staying on in America: New England Scenes, Harvard Notables, the White Mountains, American Abolitionists (1835-1836)
Chapter 14: Return to the West (1836)
Chapter 15: Voyaging Home, Difficult and Amusing Passengers, Arrival at Liverpool (1836)
Chapter 16: Reporting on America (1837)
Chapter 17: Popularity in London: Contemporaries, Visiting, Entertaining, New Authorship (1837-1838)
Chapter 18: Novelist; the Coronation, International Copyright, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Travel/Scotland, Prisons and American Abolitionists (1838)
Chapter 19: Work, London (1838-1839)
Chapter 20: Continental Touring: Toussaint’s Prison, Venice, Illness (1839)
Chapter 21: An Invalid, Martineau Travels to Newcastle and Settles at Tynemouth (1839)
Chapter 22: Lodging on Front Street, Tynemouth: Martineau’s “Cheerers,” Stories for Children (1840-1841)
Chapter 23: Correspondence (1841-1842)
Chapter 24: Martineau Weakens but Her Letters Grow Longer (1841-1842)
Chapter 25: Friends Organize a Testimonial Fund; Invalidism Eased (1842-1843) PART III: BOOKS, TRAVEL AND JOURNALISM (1844-1855)
Chapter 26: Lingering Illness, Celebrity Revived, Mesmerism (1844)
Chapter 27: A New Life (1844-1845)
Chapter 28: New Friendships (1845)
Chapter 29: Mesmerism, Writings, Martineau Builds a “Cottage”; Surprise Invitation to Travel (1845)
Chapter 30: Eastern Travel, Egypt (1846-1847)
Chapter 31: The Holy Lands, New Religious Concepts (1847)
Chapter 32: Carlyle on Martineau: "Life, Loquacity, Dogmatism, and Various 'gospels of the East-Wind'" (1847-1848)
Chapter 33: A Consummate Historian and the “Atkinson Letters" (1848-1852)
Chapter 34: Reporting for the London “Daily News” on Emigration to Australia and Post-Famine Ireland (1852)
Chapter 35: Obituarist and Reviewer (1853)
Chapter 36: Sibling Rivalry (1853)
Chapter 37: Reporting on Politics, War, etc.; Translation of Comte (1853-1854)
Chapter 38: Friends, Journalism: Keeping the Record Straight (1854-1855)
PART IV: MORTAL ILLNESS, JOURNALISM; THE DAILY NEWS (1855-1885)
Chapter 39: "Heart Ailment" (1855)
Chapter 40: Continued Journalism; Last Arrangements (1855)
Chapter 41: Admired Journalist, Story-Teller, Philanthropist (1856)
Chapter 42: American Affairs; Refuting The Times (1856-1857) Chapter 43: Writings on India, Church Rates, etc.; John Chapman’s Treachery over the Westminster Review (1857-1858)
Chapter 44: Leaving the Westminster for the Edinburgh Review (1858-1859)
Chapter 45: Journalism and an Aching Head (1859-1860)
Chapter 46: Writing, Family Concerns, Civil War in America (1860-1861)
Chapter 47: Daily News; the American Civil War (1861-1862)
Chapter 48: The Edinburgh Review, Daily News and Once A Week (1862-1863)
Chapter 49: Deaths (1863-1864)
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52: Obituaries from the Daily News, Other Reissues and a New Cause (1868-1870)
Chapter 53: Literary Gossip and Life at The Knoll (1870-1873)
Chapter 54: Last Arrangements (1873-1876)
Chapter 55: Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (1876-1885)