| Evidence: | Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thought Holland on the whole the more convenient of the two; so I dipped into some book about that country (Sir William Temple, I believe it was), picked out the two ugliest Dutch names I could find, made them into a firm, and boldly advertised them.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1833 and 31 Dec 1833 | ||||||||||
| Country: | unknown | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Harriet Martineau |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 12 Jun 1802 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Religion: | Unitarian |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | unknown |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | Sir William Temple |
| Title: | [work on Holland] |
| Genre: | Geography / Travel |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 9694 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | Harriet Martineau | |
| Editor: | n/a | |
| Title: | Harriet Martineau's Autobiography | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1877 | |
| Vol: | 1 | |
| Page: | 241 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Harriet Martineau, Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (London, 1877), 1, p. 241, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=9694, accessed: 20 April 2024 | |
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