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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read the German's tale'Mary Shelley Harriet Lee'Kruitzner or the German's tale'Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Harriet MartineauThe history of the British Empire in IndiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ...Harriet MartineauThe history of England during the thirty years' pe...Print: Book
1850-1899Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ...Beatrice Webb Harriet MartineauAutobiographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M...Henrietta Litchfield Harriet MartineauSettlers at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National"....George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau[article on Missions in the Westminster Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'George Eliot [pseud] Harriet MartineauHistory of the Peace: Being a History of England f...Print: Book
1850-1899'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fat...George Eliot (pseud) Harriet MartineauHistory of the Thirty Years PeacePrint: Book
1800-1849'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S...Thomas Carter Harriet Martineau[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of preaching. It is inferior in execution to Miss Aus...Henry Crabb Robinson Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ps. Have you read Miss Martineau on Mesmerism in the Athenaeum (two of them). I have got them and if you like I will send them to you. They are very wonderful [underlin...Alfred Tennyson Harriet MartineauMiss Martineau on MesmerismPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chiefly directed against Romance, and therefore not nec...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Harriet MartineauFive Years of Youth: or, Sense and SentimentPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea he said "[...] I will read you something"; and he he...Harriet Martineauarticle on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her early writings: 'I immediately after [the publication of her first periodical essay] began to write my first work, -- "Devotional Exercises," [.....Harriet MartineauDevotional ExercisesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on one of her early publications: 'A most excellent young servant of ours [...] went out to Madeira with my brother and his family [...] Her history was...Martineau family servant, and husbandHarriet MartineauMy Servant RachelPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her concerns about the acceptability of some of her writings: 'While writing "Weal and Woe in Garveloch," the perspiration many a time streamed down ...Harriet Martineau Harriet Martineau"Weal and Woe in Garveloch"Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman lent the 'Garveloch' stories by one of Martineau's ...anon Harriet Martineauvolume containing "Garveloch" storiesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman lent the 'Garveloch' stories by one of Martineau's ...anon woman and husbandHarriet MartineauSeries of TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had become convinced by reading "Cousin Marshall" and others ...J. J. Gurney Harriet MartineauStories including "Cousin Marshall"Print: Unknown
1800-1849'[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had become convinced by reading "Cousin Marshall" and others ...Family of Elizabeth FryHarriet MartineauStories including "Cousin Marshall"Print: Unknown


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