Evidence: | Harriet 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 a rather remarkable, and a very interesting one; and I wrote it in the form of four of Houlston's penny tracts. He threw together, and made a little book of them; and the heroine, who would never have heard of them as tracts, was speedily put in possession of her Memoirs in the form of the little book called "My Servant Rachel." An aunt of mine, calling on her one day, found her standing in the middle of the floor, and her husband reading the book over her shoulder.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1827 and 31 Dec 1827 | ||||||||||
Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reading Group: | Martineau family servant, and husband |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Unknown |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Servant |
Occupation: | Servant and husband |
Religion: | Unitarian [?] |
Country of origin: | unknown |
Country of experience: | unknown |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Harriet Martineau |
Title: | My Servant Rachel |
Genre: | Fiction, Biography |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1827 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 9637 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
Vol: | 1 | |
Page: | 137 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 137, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9637, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
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