Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 6: Harriet Martineau

Morley, John · 1923

Produced by Paul Murray, Kit Ellis and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net In 1850 Charlotte Bronte paid a visit to Harriet Martineau at Ambleside, and she wrote to her friends various emphatic accounts of her hostess. 'Without adopting her theories,' Miss Bronte said, 'I yet find a worth and greatness in herself, and a consistency, benevolence, perseverance in her practice, such as wins the sincerest esteem and affection. She is not a person to be judged by her writings alone, but rather by her own deeds and life, than which nothing can be more exemplary or noble.'…

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