Category: Biographies
When Louis XIV. of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, in 1688, a large number of the Protestants who were driven out of France by the impending persecutions came to seek refuge in this favored land of liberty of ours. Many who thus settled in our midst were amongst the most s...
Harriet Martineau had never gone the right way to work to become rich by literature. She had not chosen her subjects with a view to the mere monetary success she might attain, a...
4. CHAPTER IV.The loss of pecuniary position did something more for Harriet Martineau besides opening the way to work in literature. The knowledge that she was now poor gave her lover courage...
10. CHAPTER X.Miss Martineau's health failed towards the end of 1854; and early in 1855, symptoms of a disorganized circulation became so serious that she went up to London to consult physici...
9. CHAPTER IX.The book, published early in 1848, in which Harriet described her Egyptian, Desert and Palestine travels, was entitled _Eastern Life, Past and Present_. If I were required to gi...
5. CHAPTER V.The work which had struggled into printed existence with such extreme difficulty raised its author at a bound to fame. Ten days after the publication of the first number, Charle...
1. CHAPTER I.When Louis XIV. of France revoked the Edict of Nantes, in 1688, a large number of the Protestants who were driven out of France by the impending persecutions came to seek refuge...
6. CHAPTER VI.On the conclusion of the publication of the _Illustrations of Political Economy_, Harriet went to the United States, and travelled there for more than two years. Her fame had pr...
7. CHAPTER VII.Almost immediately after the publication of _Deerbrook_ Harriet started for a Continental tour. She was to escort an invalid cousin to Switzerland, and afterwards to travel thro...
8. CHAPTER VIII.At forty-two years old, Harriet Martineau found herself free for the first time to form and take possession of a _home of her own_. Now, for the first time, she could have the l...
2. CHAPTER II.Old Norwich, in the early years of this century, was a somewhat exceptional place. It so chanced that besides the exclusiveness natural even now to the society of a cathedral to...
3. CHAPTER III.Harriet Martineau's first attempt to write for publication was made in the same year that her acquaintance with Mr. Worthington was formed; in 1822, when she was twenty years ol...