Other Relevant Publications

Books on Harriet Martineau

Bosanquet, Theodora. Harriet Martineau: An Essay in Comprehension. (London: Etchels and Macdonald, 1927).

Colby, Vineta. “Domestic Devotion and Hearthside Heroism: Harriet Martineau’s Deerbrook and the Novel of Community.” Yesterday’s Woman: Domestic Realism in the English Novel. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974).

David, Deidre. Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot. (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1987).

Frawley, Maria. Ed. Life in the Sickroom by Harriet Martineau (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003).

Hill, Michael. ed. How to Observe Morals and Manners by Harriet Martineau (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1989)

Hill, Michael & Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan. eds. Harriet Martineau.Theoretical & MethodologicalPerspectives (New York & London: Routledge, 2003)

Hill, Michael. Compiled, Edited, and Introduced by Dr. Michael R. Hill. An Independent Woman's Lake District Writings: Harriet Martineau.  (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books/ Prometheus Books, 2004)

Lohrli, Anne; compiler. Household Words:A Weekly Journal 1850-59 Conducted by Charles Dickens. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973).

Martineau, David. Pedigrees of the Martineau Family. 1907. Revised edition by C Anthony Crofton, printed for private circulation, 1972.

Miller, F. Fenwick. Harriet Martineau. (London: W H Allen, 1884).

Nevill, John Cranstoun. Harriet Martineau. (London: Frederick Muller, 1943).

Peterson, Linda H. “Martineau’s Autobiography: The Feminine Debate over Self-Interpretation.” Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).

Peterson, Linda H. ed. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography (2005. Ontario: Broadview Press)

Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harriet Martineau: The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76.(Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1980).

Pope-Hennessey, Una. “Harriet Martineau.” Three English Women in America. (London: Benn, 1929).

Rivlin, Joseph B. Harriet Martineau: A Bibliography of Her Separately Printed Books. (New York: The New York Public Library, 1947).

Weiner, Gaby. “Harriet Martineau.” In Dale Spender, ed.Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done To Them, From Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982: 125-35).

Thomas, Gillian. Harriet Martineau. (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985).

Wheatley, Vera. The Life and Work of Harriet Martineau. (London: Secker and Warburg, 1957).

Yates, Gale Graham, ed. Harriet Martineau on Women. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985).

An extensive bibliography can be found in Susan Hoecker-Drysdale’s, Harriet Martineau: The First Woman Sociologist.

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Books by, and about, James are not commonly available, although most of his works may be seen at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, contact email: librarian@hmc.ox.ac.uk

An essay on James Martineau by Ralph Waller can be found in:Truth, Liberty, Religion. ed Barbara Smith. ( Pub. Manchester College Oxford, 1986), 228-264. 

The centenary of James’ death was celebrated at a conference in August 2000. Some of the papers presented are recorded in:Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol XXII No 4, April 2002.

Schulman, Frank. James Martineau: “This Conscience-Intoxicated Unitarian”. (Meadville Lombard Press, Chicago, 2002) ISBN: 0-9702479-1-5

Other works on James Martineau are:

James Drummond and C. B. Upton, The Life and Letters of James Martineau, 2 vol. (1902)

A.W. Jackson, James Martineau, A Biography and Study (1901)

Alexander H. Craufurd, Recollections of James Martineau (1903)

J. Estlin Carpenter, James Martineau, Theologian and Teacher (1905).

Articles in Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society (TUHS) and in Faith and Freedom (FAF) include:

Anthony J.Cross,

"James Martineau with the Pope on the Lord's side," FAF (Autumn/Winter 1996)

"Moving Martineau off the miracles: the role of Joseph Blanco White," FAF  (Autumn/Winter 1995);

Murray Bracey, "James Martineau: apostle of catholicity," FAF (Spring/Summer 1993)

Gayle Graham Yates, "Harriet Martineau and her brother James," FAF (Summer 1986);

Ralph Waller,

"James Martineau revisited," FAF (Summer 1985)

"The Liverpool Controversy," FAF (Spring/Summer 1994)

"Scenes of Manchester College from the eyes of James Martineau," TUHS (1997).

"James Martineau: the development of his thought," in Barbara Smith, ed., Truth, Liberty, Religion: Essays Celebrating Two Hundred Years of Manchester College (1986)

"James Martineau in Dublin" & "James Martineau and the catholic spirit amid the tensions of Dublin, 1828-1832," in W. J. Sheils, and Diana Wood, eds. The Churches, Ireland and the Irish (1989).