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BY THEMSELVES AND OTHERS
EDITED BY
HELEN GRAY CONE
AND
JEANNETTE L. GILDER
WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY THE FORMER.
Vol. II.
CASSELL & COMPANY, Limited,
739 & 741 Broadway, New York.
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Copyright,
1887,
By O. M. DUNHAM.
Press W. L. Mershon & Co.,
Rahway, N. J.
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| PAGE. | |
|---|---|
| Harriet Martineau, | 11 |
| Aurore Dudevant (George Sands), | 59 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning, | 93 |
| Margaret Fuller (Ossoli), | 131 |
| Charlotte Brontë, | 179 |
| Emily Brontë, | |
| Marian Evans Cross (George Eliot), | 245 |
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HARRIET MARTINEAU.
1802-1876.
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Harriet Martineau was born at Norwich, on the 12th of June, 1802. TheMartineau family were descendants of Huguenot refugees. Harriet’sfather, Thomas Martineau, was a Norwich manufacturer; ElizabethRankin was the maiden name of her mother, who is described as “a trueNorthumbrian woman.” Harriet was the sixth child in a family of eight.Her childhood was sickly, repressed, and unhappy. “My life has had nospring,” she wrote long afterwards. At eleven years of age she wassent to the school of a Mr. Perry, who laid a solid foundation for hereducation. About two years later Mr. Perry left Norwich, and Harriet’seducation was then carried on at home under visiting masters. Atfourteen she was sent to a Bristol boarding school, where she stayedfifteen months. After this, her keen appetite for know