| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft:
George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I re... | George Martin | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that h... | | Henry De Vere Stacpoole | The Blue Lagoon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When we were at the Grammar School, the English master's daughter, who was in the same class as Sheila, told us that h... | Betty Martin | Henry De Vere Stacpoole | The Blue Lagoon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almos... | Harriet Martineau | R.M. Milnes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into suc... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the ... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with... | Harriet Martineau | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Hymns in Prose for Children | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbe... | Theodore Martin | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Symington | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | J. A. Froude | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | The Bible and Modern Thought | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | | Memorials of Fox | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Bancroft | The American Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Waddington | Church History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Paley | Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | John Locke | An Essay Concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics of Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes pencilled marginalia by Harriet Martineau in her copy of Elizabeth Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bron... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always hated Gay's Fables, and for long could not abide a red book.' | Harriet Martineau | John Gay | Gay's Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'So, to work I went in my own way, again and again studying the New Testament,-making "Harmonies", poring over the geo... | Harriet Martineau | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With the Old Testament, I got on very well; but I was amazed at the difficulty with the New. I knew it to be of so mu... | Harriet Martineau | | Old and New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the doo... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | David Friedrich Strauss | Das Leben Jesu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas De Quincey | 'Lake Reminiscences, from 1807-1830. By the English Opium-Eater', in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers i... | Harriet Martineau | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Lion: A Tale of the Coteries, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Michel de Montaigne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Moliere (pseud.) | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Is not "Cinq Mars" very fine? I should like to read more of De Vigny'. | Harriet Martineau | Alfred de Vigny | Cinq Mars | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Chartism" gave me more pleasure and less pain than I expected: but the more I think it over the worse it looks. Ther... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Chartism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I liked the Athenaeum on Chartism much. Thank you for sending it. One has great pleasure in reading the Athenaeum - t... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | Athenaeum [review of Carlyle's Chartism] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ' I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Gre... | Harriet Martineau | George Grey | Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northwest and Western Australia, 1837-1839 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Lambtons sent me the last Edinburgh, prematurely brought out for the Eastern article. That art: was bad enough; b... | Harriet Martineau | various authors | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '"Past and Present", very bad, insolent, bitter, one-sided and full of weary repetitions. I found i... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My lamp is burning out, and it is time I was going to my chamber fireside, - there to finished the last 1/2 vol of "C... | Harriet Martineau | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I li... | Harriet Martineau | various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreea... | Harriet Martineau | Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley) | Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'you must see Esdaile's book. If there are any sane persons who still doubt "the truth of Mesmerism", that book must c... | Harriet Martineau | James Esdaile | Mesmerism in India and its Practical Application in Surgery and Medicine [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Can you tell me about "Jane Eyre", - who wrote it? I am told I wrote the 1st vol: and I don't know how to disbelieve ... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Heny Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'O! "Esmond"! That book marks its own year in one's life. I never did any justice to Thackeray before; and I cannot | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope some woman will arise who, with power like, or equal to, C.B.'s [Charlotte Bronte's], will bring us up to high... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Gaskell | [possibly the story, 'Stopped Payment, at Cranford' in Household Words, April 1853] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'. | Harriet Martineau | John William Kaye | Life and Correspondence of... Sir John Malcolm, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wanted to write about Malcolm's Life and Sothey's new letters, and other things; but I must stop now'. | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Buckle's "History of the Civilisation in England"] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read... | Harriet Martineau | Sam Brown | Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scientific and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell Eras: that Buckle has been an immense treat...Of course I agree about the grave inconsistencies, serious disprop... | Harriet Martineau | Henry Buckle | History of the Civilisation in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose one ought to read [Carlyle's] "Fred": but the extracts do look such a hash of his old sayings that one has ... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great [extracts of] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'what I write for is to thank you again for sending me your brother's [Charles Darwin's] book. As for thanking | Harriet Martineau | Charles Darwin | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for beauty; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O ... | Harriet Martineau | Sara Sophia Hennell | Thoughts in Aid of Faith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she op... | Harriet Martineau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its C... | Harriet Martineau | John Lothrop Motley | Causes of the Civil War in America [probably] | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I'm afraid you would give me up if you knew how I am longing for the second series of "Mrs Delany". The first was an ... | Harriet Martineau | Augusta Llanover (ed.) | Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granvile (Mrs Delany) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read [Mr Lucas's book]? "Secularia; Surveys on the Main Stream of History"... It altogeth... | Harriet Martineau | Samuel Lucas | Secularia; or, Surveys on the Mainstream of History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been remonstrating with Mr Knight about a couple of sentences in his charming new volume "Some Passages i... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Knight | Passages of a Working Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much ... | Harriet Martineau | Theresa Lewis | Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So it was you that sent me "Miss Berry"! That was a real good deed. I don't find that anybody enjoys it half so much ... | Harriet Martineau | George Grote | Plato, and the other Companions of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's ("Mary Eyre" of the Times) "A Lady's Walks in the South... | Harriet Martineau | Mary Grote | A Lady's Walks in the South of France in 1863 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that ... | Harriet Martineau | Matthew Arnold | 'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi... | Harriet Martineau | [unknown] | [Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi... | Harriet Martineau | [unknown] | Daily News (comment on Matthew Arnold) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi... | Harriet Martineau | [unknown] | The Times (comment on Matthew Arnold) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been unexpectedly interested - unexpectedly as to degree - in my old friend Babbage's "Passages in the Life &c... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Babbage | Passages from the Life of a Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to books, we (in this house) are very old-fashioned; and I am only now indulging in Froude's "Elizabeth". I did no... | Harriet Martineau | James Anthony Froude | History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada [presumably part of] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It ... | Harriet Martineau | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways.... | Harriet Martineau | Barry Cornwall | Charles Lamb: A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways.... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Ross | The Correspondence of Charles, 1st Marquis of Cornwallis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mr Procter's "Ch.Lamb", - so full of affecting signs of his own failure, and so interesting in all ways.... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Grote | Collected Papers in Prose and Verse. 1842-1862 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Fan Arnold lends me the "Spectator", and at first I thought it a treat in its way: but I am getting as tired of it as... | Harriet Martineau | [n/a] | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Gre... | Harriet Martineau | Frances Edgeworth ? | [possibly] A Memoir of Maria Edgeworth, with a Selection from her Letters by the late Mrs Edgeworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The two most interesting books I have read for some time are the Edgeworth Memoir (Lady Strangford's copy) and Ld Gre... | Harriet Martineau | Henry, Earl Grey | The reform act, 1832; the correspondence of the late Earl Grey with His Majesty King William IV. and with Sir Herbert Taylor, from Nov. 1830 to June 1832 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't know whether I shall lose your good opinion forever if I tell you a true thing; but I had rather you knew the... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Lost Tales of Miletus, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,".."and again at a subsequent ... | Harriet Martineau | | The Globe (Newspaper) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository, in which I made my first appearance in prin... | Harriet Martineau | | The Monthly Repository | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My beloved hour of the day was when the [table] cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert, and read Shaksper... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [..... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Books on logic] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [..... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Books on rhetoric] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [..... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [History books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At the same time [as undertaking studies in Italian], I went on studying Blair's Rhetoric [...] and inclining mightil... | Harriet Martineau | Hugh Blair | Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily r... | Harriet Martineau | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily r... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Carpenter | Notes and Observations on the Gospel History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on Bible studies in early adulthood: 'I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely; both by daily r... | Harriet Martineau | Mr Kenrick | Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'The edition of Hartley that I used was Dr. Priestley's... | Harriet Martineau | David Hartley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on philosophical studies in early adulthood: 'I surrendered myself [...] to the charm of Dugald Stew... | Harriet Martineau | Dugald Stewart | unknown | 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 a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud f... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud f... | | unknown | [Classical texts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Houlston [Harriet Martineau's publisher] wrote to ask for another story of somewhat more substance and bulk [than the... | Harriet Martineau | | The Globe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1827, I think, that a neighbour lent my [Harriet Martineau's] sister Mrs. Marcet's "Conversat... | Harriet Martineau | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau mentions using 'Sale's Koran', borrowed from a public library, in preparation for entering a Central... | Harriet Martineau | | The Koran | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on German studies continued during stay in Kent: 'There I refreshed myself among pretty scenery, fre... | Harriet Martineau | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period of the writing of the three Series, -- the Political Economy, Taxation, and Poor-laws -- I never re... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Texts on American geography and politics] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by boo... | Harriet Martineau | Lichtenstein | "South Africa" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by boo... | Harriet Martineau | Edwards | "West Indies" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by boo... | Harriet Martineau | McCulloch | "Highlands and Islands of Scotland" | 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 describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the "Quarterly Review" containing ... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Article attacking Harriet Martineau] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtaine... | Harriet Martineau | | [Blue-book on Ireland] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtaine... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Blue-book on "Colonization"] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Robert Owen] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he knew the Bible so well as to have been heartily sick of it in his e... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thoug... | Harriet Martineau | Sir William Temple | [work on Holland] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | Maria Graham | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | Heber | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | | Columbo almanack | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] sent the first copy I could get [of her two "Excise" stories, "The Jerseymen Meeting" and "The... | Harriet Martineau | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading Southey's Life and Correspondence, the maintenance of that friendship [between the conservative Southey... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Life and Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the "Times" a ribald song addressed to me.' | Elizabeth Martineau | anon | "ribald" song about Harriet Martineau | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'My [Harriet Martineau's] pleasure in [R. Monckton Milnes's poems] was greatest when I read them in my Tynemouth solit... | Harriet Martineau | R. Monckton Milnes | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] saw much of Fanny [Kemble] in America [...] She showed me the proof-sheets of her clever "Journ... | Harriet Martineau | Fanny Kemble | Journal | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs. Marsh asked me what I thought of getting her tales published. I offered to try if, on reading the manuscript at... | Harriet Martineau | Mrs Marsh | Two Old Men's Tales (including The Admiral's Daughter) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Wiliam Godwin] told me [Harriet Martineau] [...] that he wrote the first half of "Caleb William" in three months, an... | Harriet Martineau | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Par... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" ... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I h... | Harriet Martineau | Miss Kelty | The Favourite of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Among the eminent women who sought my [Harriet Martineau's] acquaintance by letter [in the early 1830s], and whom I h... | Harriet Martineau | Miss Kelty | Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | travel writing | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) w... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Article on St. Domingo] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) w... | Harriet Martineau | | Biographie Universelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on inspiration for an ultimately abandoned novel: 'There was a police report, during that winter [?... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | [Police report] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into... | Harriet Martineau | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'I remember remarking to my mother on the impiety of ... | Harriet Martineau | | Order of Queen Victoria's coronation service | |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas De Quincey | [article] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an... | Harriet Martineau | Sir Thomas Dick Lauder | Floods in Morayshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an... | Harriet Martineau | | Penny Cyclopedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and s... | Harriet Martineau | Laing | [work on Norway] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and s... | Harriet Martineau | Inglis | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the histo... | Harriet Martineau | Heeren | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the histo... | Harriet Martineau | Warburton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I [Harriet Martineau] read ["Jane Eyre"], I was convinced that it was by some friend of my own, who had portions... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | 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 | 'When "Currer" [Charlotte Bronte] and I [Harriet Martineau] came home, there were proof-sheets [of Martineau's corresp... | Harriet Martineau | Mr Atkinson | Letter on "distribution of the brain" | Print: In proof |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | G.H. Lewes | Chapter on Auguste Comte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | Littre | "epitome" (relating to Auguste Comte) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My [Harriet Martineau's] first real interest in [Thackeray] arose from reading M. A. Titmarsh in Ireland, during my T... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Irish Sketch-Book by M. A. Titmarsh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Esmond" appears to me [Harriet Martineau] [italics]the [end italics] book of the century, in its department. I have... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'While at Cromer [...] I read "Pendennis" with such intense enjoyment [...] that the notion of trying my hand once mor... | Harriet Martineau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Pendennis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family ... | Harriet Martineau | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'Dining out frequently [...] as soo... | Harriet Martineau | | hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Prefa... | Harriet Martineau | Norton | Work "in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Prefa... | Harriet Martineau | Palfrey | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Prefa... | Harriet Martineau | | [Institutional reports] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burn... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Carlyle | Article on Burns | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'I read Gibbon. It makes me dread a single literary life, so selfish, s... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon's correspondence. Selfish, vain creature! -- beyond almost... | Harriet Martineau | Edward Gibbon | correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 8 September 1837: 'Looked over frescoes from the Niebelungen Lied, in Penny Magazine.' | Harriet Martineau | | Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]' | Harriet Martineau | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 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: 'Revelled in Lamb's letters. What an exquisite specimen is that man of... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Lamb | Letters | Print: Book |
| 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,1 October 1837: 'This morning I read the anti-slavery documents.' | Harriet Martineau | | Anti-slavery documents | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read some of Pascal's "Pensees". They sh... | Harriet Martineau | Pascal | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 October 1837: 'I read Felkin's excellent report on the working-classes of Nottingham, sh... | Harriet Martineau | Felkin | Report on working classes of Nottingham | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's "Texas."' | Harriet Martineau | Channing | Texas | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's "Marie." Sentimental and un-American' | Harriet Martineau | Beaumont | Marie | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 19 October 1837: 'At night, read some of "Archy Moore." A terrible story, which stirred m... | Harriet Martineau | Richard Hildreth | Archy Moore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 23 October 1837: 'I read Whateley's review of Miss Austen. Good, but not particularly str... | Harriet Martineau | Whateley | Review of Jane Austen | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 November 1837: 'Read Waldo Emerson's oration. Though fanciful, it has much truth and be... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | oration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, late November 1837: 'Read some of Brougham's education speech, but not all; so have no jud... | Harriet Martineau | Lord Brougham | speech on education | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 5 December 1837: 'Read the newspaper aloud.' | Harriet Martineau | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.' | Harriet Martineau | Hall | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '"Evening".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on Br... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | article on British [?Monarchism] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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, 16 December 1837: 'Read Midsummer Night's Dream in the evening. Surprised to find how com... | Harriet Martineau | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 20 December 1837: '[italics]Afternoon[end italics] Read in the Pictorial Bible, which is t... | Harriet Martineau | | Pictorial Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 28 December 1837: 'Read Defoe's "Plague." Was somewhat disappointed [...] The best part i... | Harriet Martineau | Daniel Defoe | A Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, [?6] January 1838: 'Read, in Blackwood, article on Mademoiselle Gautier, a devotee, -- muc... | Harriet Martineau | | article on "Mademoiselle Gautier" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 January 1838: 'Read Life of Scott, Vol. VI. It is far more interesting than the former... | Harriet Martineau | ? J. G. ?Lockhart | Life of Scott (vol. 6) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Read "Pride and Prejudice" again last night. I think it as clever as be... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finish... | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finish... | Harriet Martineau | | (Book of) Judges | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read "Les Precieuses Ridicules," which did not amuse me very much; thoug... | Harriet Martineau | Moliere | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 January 1838: 'Read "Northanger Abbey." Capital: found two touches of pathos.' | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read... | Harriet Martineau | Channing | Texas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Southey | Article on cemeteries | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 15 January 1838: 'Probably the greatest day of my year. While I was reading one article in... | Harriet Martineau | | Article on Grecian philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 January 1838: 'Wrote notes and letters, and then sat down to read Smedley. What a tale ... | Harriet Martineau | | [Work on/by Smedley] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 January 1838: 'Read much of "Emma" this evening'. | Harriet Martineau | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 February 1838: 'Read beautiful speeches at the Lovejoy meeting in Boston, in the "Liber... | Harriet Martineau | | Speeches to Boston meeting (anti-slavery?) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 30 June 1838: 'Read the Gospel of John in Porteusian Bible.' | Harriet Martineau | | Gospel of John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 26 August 1838: 'Very happy in reading American newspapers.' | Harriet Martineau | | American newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 1 January 1840: 'Read Examiner [...] but could not write at all. Made a cap, therefore.' | Harriet Martineau | Leigh Hunt (ed) | The Examiner | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. C... | Harriet Martineau | Wilberforce | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 3 January 1840: '[italics]Evening[end italics]. -- Read Wilberforce, and looked over Dr. C... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Crowther | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writ... | Harriet Martineau | Thom | account of "Oxford Movement" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writ... | Harriet Martineau | William Wilberforce | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease, 27 February 1841: 'I have read the statements in "Right and Wrong among the Abol... | Harriet Martineau | | Right and Wrong among the Abolitionists of the United States | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's "In Memoriam": 'Like most o... | Harriet Martineau | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam A. H. H. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau to E. J. Furnival, 5 October 1851, thanking him for a copy of Tennyson's [italics]In Memoriam[end it... | Harriet Martineau | Alfred Tennyson | The Princess | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From chapter entitled 'Conversations' in Maria Weston Chapman's 'Memorials' of Harriet Martineau: 'Reading an article ... | Harriet Martineau | Louisa May Alcott | Transcendental Wild Oats (article) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau, in letter of 8 July 1862: 'If Mr. Lucas's book should come in your way ("Secularia: Surveys on the ... | Harriet Martineau | Lucas | Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal ... | Harriet Martineau | John Forster | The Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau to Mrs F. G. Shaw, 17 July 1874: 'I wish to send you my thanks [...] for sending me what I so much w... | Harriet Martineau | Curtis | Eulogy on Charles Sumner | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I a... | Harriet Martineau | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two m... | Harriet Martineau | James Edward Austen-Leigh | A Memoir of Jane Austen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now it was meeting James at seven in the morning to read Lowth's Prelections in the Latin," | Harriet Martineau | Lowth | Lowth's Prelections in Latin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I we... | Harriet Martineau | Tacitus | Agricola | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now it was translating Tacitus, in order to try what was the utmost compression of style that I could attain.".."I we... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Aitkin | Translation of the Agricola of Tacitus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I studied the Bible incessantly and immensely;both by daily reading of chapters,after the approved but mischievous me... | Harriet Martineau | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "A work of Dr Carpenter's,begun but never finished,called "Notes and Observations on the Gospel history", which his ca... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Carpenter | Notes and Observations on the Gospel History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Dr Carpenter was inclined also to the study of philosophy,and wrote on it,-on mental and moral philosophy;and this wa... | Harriet Martineau | Dr Carpenter | Articles: Mental and Moral Philosophy & Systemic Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "It was while reading Mr Kendrick's translation from the German of 'Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem',with which I was ... | Harriet Martineau | Mr Kendrick | Translation of 'Helons Pilgrimage from Jerusalem' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with m... | John Martin | [n/a] | [Irish newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 August 1843:
'I owe to you many many moments of pleasure, some ideas (rar... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Barrett | The Dead Pan | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 October 1843:
'Lady M. Lambton discharged her commission punctually, bri... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Barrett | The Seraphim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 July 1844:
'I read Tennyson with deep & high delight, yet with the mourn... | Harriet Martineau | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 September 1844:
'You have been in my mind, & your vols -- or one at a ti... | Harriet Martineau | Elizabeth Barrett | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she said to H M, 'What did you really think of "Jane Eyre"?' H M. I thought it a first rate book, whereupon the littl... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] ve... | Harriet Martineau | Charlotte Bronte | Villette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 12 April 1845:
'I have been detained from writing to you by reading the Ath... | Harriet Martineau | | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | James Martineau | James Martineau | 'Is there any Axiom of Causation?' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Gentleman - one Mr Martin a Surgeon - was reproving his Son for relating some Story of a Gentleman's Marriage which... | | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A... | Ellen Martin | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Sha... | Albert John Martin | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle bec... | Albert John Martin | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics... | Albert John Martin | Siegfried Sassoon | Counter-Attack and Other Poems | Print: Book |