Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
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Maria Weston Chapman
Standard Name: Chapman, Maria Weston
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Harriet Martineau | A letter she wrote to Maria Weston Chapman
in early 1855 expresses the calm with which she contemplated the prospect of death: I have not the slightest anxiety about dying,—not the slightest reluctance to it... |
| Leisure and Society | Harriet Martineau | Her friend Maria Weston Chapman
thought Martineau's private library of something between 2,000 and 3,000 books to be probably the best woman's library extant. |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Maria Weston Chapman
considered it the effort of a superior mind to lift its religion out of the region of commonplace. Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 158 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | It so impressed the lace-makers of Derby and Nottingham that they asked for another story from her on the subject of wages. Martineau, Harriet, and Gaby Weiner. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Virago, 1983, 2 vols. 1: 135 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | Maria Weston Chapman
viewed the books in this series as an innovation in literary terms, and also as the beginnings in England of a science of sociology. Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596. 196 |
| Occupation | Margaret Fuller | The Conversations were not without their critics, however. Maria Weston Chapman
, head of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
, criticised them for failing to address abolition explicitly. Chapman may have influenced the opinion which... |
| politics | Harriet Martineau | HM
formed links with the wing of the abolitionist movement led by William Lloyd Garrison
, and made a fast friend in Maria Weston Chapman
, a pivotal member of this movement. Long after her... |
| Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
was so popular overseas that she was strongly associated, in the mind of Wordsworth
at least, with a US audience. Her poems, particularly the Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England from Records... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | HM
's autobiography, written in 1855, was published by Maria Weston Chapman
, her literary executor, as Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, with Memorials by Maria Weston Chapman. The text is available online at the Victorian... |
| Textual Production | Harriet Martineau | These collections supply parts of HM
's correspondence with Matthew Arnold
, Charlotte Brontë
, Jane Welsh Carlyle
, John Chapman
, Maria Weston Chapman
, Anne Jemima Clough
, Samuel Courtauld
, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Martineau | This essay was also a review of three books on spiritual potentates of our age. Martineau, Harriet. “The Martyr Age of the United States”. London and Westminster Review, Vol. 32 , Dec. 1838, pp. 1-59. 59 |
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Texts
Martineau, Harriet, and Maria Weston Chapman. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Smith, Elder, 1877, 3 vols.
Martineau, Harriet. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. Editor Chapman, Maria Weston, Cambridge Library Collection, Cambridge University Press, 2010, http://www.cambridge.org/series/sSeries.asp?code=CLOR.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.