Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols.
2: 214
Henry George Atkinson
Standard Name: Atkinson, Henry George
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Harriet Martineau | In a final gesture, she willed her skull and brain to Henry Atkinson
for phrenological examination, and she considered willing her ears to a doctor interested in deafness; but neither of these bequests was actually... |
| Friends, Associates | Harriet Martineau | Soon after her miraculous recovery, HM
met Henry Atkinson
, a mesmerist and religious sceptic who had a profound effect on her later philosophy. |
| Health | Harriet Martineau | The ministrations of renowned mesmerist Spencer T. Hall
had no beneficial result, but her maid in copying his movements produced a strong sense of well-being that lasted for hours. Eventually a trained mesmerist acceptable to... |
| Publishing | George Eliot | At about the same time that GE
took on the Westminster Review, she also began reviewing for The Leader, a weekly recently launched by Thornton Hunt
and George Henry Lewes
. Two uncomplimentary... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
shocked Victorian society by publishing (through John Chapman
) the letters of questioning on religious subjects that she had exchanged with Henry George Atkinson
: Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996. 81n13 Sanders, Valerie. Reason over Passion: Harriet Martineau and the Victorian Novel. Harvester Press, 1986. 216 Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 139 |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | It was dated 1851. Her biographer R. K. Webb
claims that the bulk of the book is Atkinson
's, with promptings from Harriet Martineau
, although it certainly also includes substantial letters from her. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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Atkinson, Henry George, and Harriet Martineau. Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development. John Chapman, 1851.