| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work "Let... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet and H. G. Martineau and Atkinson | Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | Harriet Martineau | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Harriet Martineau | Settlers at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | 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 Martineau | History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854 | 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 no... | | Harriet Martineau | The history of the British Empire in India | 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 no... | | Harriet Martineau | The history of England during the thirty years' peace : 1816-1846 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentim... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | History of the Thirty Years Peace | Print: 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... | 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... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: 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... | Alfred Tennyson | Harriet Martineau | Miss Martineau on Mesmerism | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chi... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea ... | | Harriet Martineau | article on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her early writings: 'I immediately after [the publication of her first periodical essay] began to... | | Harriet Martineau | Devotional Exercises | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on one of her early publications: 'A most excellent young servant of ours [...] went out to Madeira ... | Martineau family servant, and husband | Harriet Martineau | My Servant Rachel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her concerns about the acceptability of some of her writings: 'While writing "Weal and Woe in Gar... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | "Weal and Woe in Garveloch" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon | Harriet Martineau | volume containing "Garveloch" stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon woman and husband | Harriet Martineau | Series of Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had becom... | J. J. Gurney | Harriet Martineau | Stories 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 becom... | Family of Elizabeth Fry | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since reading "Cousin Marshall" and others of my Numbers, [Lord Henley] had dropped his subscriptions to some hurtful... | Lord Henley | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Harriet Martineau | Tales | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a... | anon | Harriet Martineau | work on Toussaint L'Ouverture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) t... | Princess Victoria | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Ella of Garveloch" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospe... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect of Western Travel | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day,... | anon | Harriet Martineau | articles on Household Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte (writing as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, 7 November 1849: 'When C.B. first read "Deerbrook" he ... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Currer Bell" [Charlotte Bronte] told me [Harriet Martineau] that she had read with astonishment those parts of "Hous... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau | Household Education | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] wrote a letter [...] to an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, who was earnest in his endeavours t... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Letter to Assistant poor-law Commissioner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Harriet Martineau, on Martineau's published correspondence with Atkinson: 'Having read your book, ... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau and H.G. Atkinson | Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end... | Maria Weston Chapman | Harriet Martineau | Mary and her Grandmother | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'. | Lord Durham | Harriet Martineau | article | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of "Retrospect." ... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics] Read [...] to my mother [...] my Sedgwic... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | article on Sedgwick | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Morning, read one of my own stories, -- "Loom and Lugger." Was quite d... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Loom and Lugger | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 February 1838: '[At Captain Beaufort's] Met [...] C. Darwin, Mr. F. Edgeworth, and Mr. H... | | Harriet Martineau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.' | Sir Arthur Helps | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man... | Francis Jeffrey | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historic... | Florence Nightingale | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to ... | Elizabeth B. Ker | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sickroom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846:
'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Tales on the Game Laws | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequent... | Sydney Smith | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sick Room | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simpl... | Catharine Sedgwick | Harriet Martineau | works on political economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I ... | Mary Shelley | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Hour and the Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addr... | John Kenyon | Harriet Martineau | extract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting seance | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Complete Guide to the English Lakes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 13-14 January 1846:
'Will you have Miss Martineau's books when I can lend the... | Moulton-Barrett family | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-right... | Antonia White | Harriet Martineau | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, ... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844:
'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's boo... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | 'tales' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844:
'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's boo... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | 'tales' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1844):
'I should like Miss Martineau, if somebod... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | | Print: Unknown |