Cumulative list of speakers
Inaugural Meeting, Oxford, 16 July 1994
Informal address
Professor R K Webb, Emeritus Professor of History, (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA).
‘Forty years on: Reflections on Writing about Harriet Martineau’.
Revd R T Charles (Bexhill-on-Sea):
The Ecumenical Vision of James Martineau’.
Dr D L Wykes (Leicester University, Dept. of History):
‘James Martineau - student at Manchester College, York’.
Miss C L Penney (Archivist of Birmingham University):
‘The Harriet Martineau collection in the University of Birmingham’.
Revd A J Cross (Oxford):
‘Moving Martineau off the Miracles - the role played by Joseph Blanco White’.
Dr Susan Hoecker-Drysdale (Concordia University, Montreal):
‘Harriet Martineau and the Rise of Sociology’.
First Annual General Meeting, Oxford, 15 July 1995.
Prof. Elisabeth Arbuckle, (University, San Juan, Puerto Rico):
‘Martineau material at the University of California’.
Prof. Joan Rees, (Emeritus Professor of English Literature, University of Birmingham):
‘Harriet Martineau in Egypt’.
The Revd. Reginald Charles, (Bexhill-on-Sea):
‘The Christian Spirituality of James Martineau’.
The Revd. Tony Cross, (Former Principal, Manchester College,Oxford):
‘James Martineau with the Pope on The Lord’s side’.
The Revd Dr Ralph Waller, (Principal, Manchester College, Oxford):
Theme,’Manchester College - James Martineau’s view’
President’s address
Prof R K Webb,(Washington). ‘English Unitarians & Religious Liberty : A Family Crisis 1860-66‘, with a postscript on Harriet.
Second Annual General Meeting, Oxford, 27 July 1996.
Keynote Address - Revd Dr Ralph Waller, Principal, Harris Manchester College.
Prof. Elisabeth Arbuckle, (University, San Juan, Puerto Rico):
‘The Huguenot Heritage: Gaston Martineau’.
The Revd. Reginald Charles, (Bexhill-on-Sea):
‘The Theology of James Martineau’.
The Revd. Tony Cross, (Former Principal, Manchester College,Oxford):
‘From Friar to Free Christian - Martineau’s Hand in Suffield’s “Apostacy” ‘.
Barbara Todd, (Ambleside, Cumbria):
‘Harriet Martineau : Builder, Gardener and Home-maker’
Third Annual General Meeting, Oxford, 12 July 1997.
Prof. Elisabeth Arbuckle, (University, San Juan, Puerto Rico):
‘A Death in the Family, Tom Martineau, 1795 – 1824’.
The Revd. Tony Cross, (Former Principal, Manchester College,Oxford):
‘ “Kindling natural devotion” - James Martineau as Hymnodist’.
Sophia Hankinson, (Chairman, Kings Lynn):
‘Trails, past and future’
President’s remarks - Professor R K Webb, ‘Some Reflections’.
Fourth Annual General Meeting, Durham, 12 September 1998.
President’s Address, The Revd. Dr. Frank Schulman .
The Revd. Ann Peart, (Brookfield Church, Gorton, Cheshire):
‘The other Helen Martineau’
Prof. Elisabeth Arbuckle, (University, San Juan, Puerto Rico):
‘Harriet Martineau Escapes to America’.
Sophia Hankinson, (Chairman, Kings Lynn):
‘Sidelights on a Surgeon - the young PMM’
Dickens & Martineau
Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, London, Friday, 10 September, 1999
Prof Elisabeth Arbuckle:
‘The Aims of the Martineau Society’ .
Prof Ken Fielding.
‘Likenesses in Unlikenesses: Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau’.
Fifth Annual General Meeting, London, 11 September 1999.
Dr Williams’s Library, Gordon Square
President’s Address, The Revd. Dr. Frank Schulman .
Tony Cross, (Former Principal, Manchester College, Oxford):
‘”Damning Sin She Has No Mind to”: Miss Martineau and William Taylor’s Reputation’.
Sophia Hankinson, (Former Chairman, Kings Lynn):
‘PMM, Bracondale, and Humphrey Repton’
Deborah Logan, (Western Kentucky University, USA):
‘Harriet Martineau and America’s Reign of Terror’
Anka Ryall, (University, Tromso, Norway):
‘Harriet Martineau and the Medical Profession’
James Martineau Centenary Conference, Oxford, 15 - 18 August 2000
TUESDAY 15 August 2000
Prof. R. K. Webb (Professor Emeritus, Maryland),
'Martineau and Newman'.
The Revd Dr Ralph Waller (Principal, Harris Manchester College),
'James Martineau, the critical mind and the will to believe'.
WEDNESDAY 16 August 2000
Dr Nicholas Shrimpton (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford),
'Harriet Martineau and the Victorians'.
Alan Ruston (Unitarian historian),
'Locked in Combat: James Martineau and the Unitarian Association'.
Dr Carol Keller (San Antonio College),
'Harriet Martineau and James Martineau: Pundit and Pulpit, Teaching the Victorians'.
Prof Elisabeth Arbuckle (San Juan Univ),
'Harriet Martineau and the American Civil War'.
Barbara Todd (The Knoll, Ambleside),
'Harriet Martineau, gardener and farmer’.
Dr Deborah Logan (West Kentucky Univ),
‘Not Fine Ladies, but Strong-hearted Englishwomen: Harriet Martineau's Feminism’.
Revd Andrew Brown (Cambridge),
'The Development of Martineau’s Religious Thought and its Influence on Unitarianism as reflected in his three Hymn Books'.
THURSDAY 17 August 2000
Revd Dr Frank Schulman (President of the Martineau Society),
‘Martineau and ministry’.
Dr Valerie Sanders (University of Sunderland)
'Harriet & James Martineau, brother & sister'.
Prof Anka Ryall (University of Tromso, Norway),
'Harriet Martineau's Poetics of the Sickroom’.
Dr Jeremy Goring (Lewes),
'Martineau, Maurice and Newman: a "trinity of spiritual powers"'.
Prof Ken Fielding (Professor Emeritus, Edinburgh),
'James, Harriet, and the Unitarians, and Thomas and Jane Carlyle'.
Revd Ann Peart,
'Struggles with feelings - rational religion and emotion in the letters of Helen Martineau (née Bourn)'.
Dr David Wykes (Dr Williams's Trust),
‘James Martineau and London’.
Seventh Annual Meeting. University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2 - 4 August 2001
THURSDAY 2 August 2001
Introductory Address - Barbara Todd, Chairperson.
Valerie Sanders
‘Harriet and James as autobiographers: a comparison’.
Anka Ryall
‘”Erasmus's Belle”: Harriet Martineau and the Darwins’.
Sarah Knight
‘Harriet Martineau’s ‘”British Rule in India”: A Modern Indian Perspective’
Peter Holloway
‘Harriet's Head’.
Harriet Martineau Bicentenary 11 - 14 June 2002, Ambleside, Cumbria, England (eighth annual meeting)
TUESDAY 11 June
Professor Ken Fielding
Wordsworth Memorial Lecture: Harriet Martineau and William Wordsworth (at Rydal Church)
THURSDAY 13 June
Lecture:
‘ I Would Fain Treat Of Woman’ (Library, Salutation Hotel)
Professor Valerie Sanders
‘An Exceedingly Good Girl At Present”: Harriet Martineau and Queen Victoria’
Professor Marion Just
‘Through Different Eyes: Martineau and de Tocqueville’s Views of Women In America’
Professor Elisabeth Arbuckle:
‘Harriet Martineau and The Wedgwood Circle ‘
Professor Gaby Weiner:
‘Interpreting A Life: The Truth and Harriet Martineau’
Ninth annual meeting, 8-10 August 2003, Harris Manchester College, Oxford
FRIDAY 8 August.
Thomas Dixon
‘Harriet's Altruism’
SUNDAY 10 August
Elisabeth Arbuckle
‘Harriet Martineau and Henry Crabb Robinson’
Gaby Weiner
‘”Strengthening of the Body, the cultivation of the Senses, and the enlivening of the Mind”: Harriet Martineau’s views on education’.
Shu Fang Lai.
‘Harriet Martineau and “Once a Week”’
Sophia Hankinson:
‘James Martineau: a Victorian demystified - thanks to Dr Schulman’.
Tenth annual meeting, 1 - 4 July 2004, Wast Hills House, Birmingham
Friday 2 July
Elisabeth Arbuckle
‘Harriet Martineau and John Chapman’
Sophia Hankinson
‘Lenton and the Richard Martineaus’
Saturday 3 July
Deborah Logan
‘Eastern Life, Present and Past, and Western Ethnocentricity, or How to Observe Morals and Manners in the Middle East’
Gaby Weiner
‘Feminist scholarship in biography & history: placing Harriet Martineau’
Alan Middleton
‘William Morris, Harriet Martineau and James Martineau: a cursory glance at their lives’
Alan Griffiths
‘An Introduction to the Birmingham of the Martineaus’
Sunday 4 July
Valerie Sanders
‘The Martineau Artists’
James Martineau Bicentenary celebration, "James the Man", 14-17 July 2005,
Dale Hall, University of Liverpool (eleventh annual meeting)
Introductory talk : Alan Ruston (editor, Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society ) :
‘JM - Political, Social, Personal’
Sophia Hankinson
‘"JM: Home-maker’
Elisabeth Arbuckle
‘Rachel and Ellen’
Deborah Logan
‘The Collected Letters of HM : Family Correspondence’
Elisabeth Arbuckle
‘"JM's Robe and his Influence in USA’
Shu-fang Lai
‘HM's Historiettes’
Alan Middleton
‘JM : Engineer’
Simon Rathbone ‘What a Carry-on!’
Gaby Weiner and Valerie Sanders
‘HM on JM, JM on HM’
Twelfth annual meeting, 13-16 July 2006, Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh University
Thursday 13 July
Prof Owen Dudley Edwards, University of Edinburgh
‘Ken Fielding and Harriet Martineau’
Friday 14 July
Elisabeth Arbuckle
‘Harriet Martineau and her Scottish Friends’
Shu-Fang Lai
‘Harriet Martineau’s Writing on Mary, Queen Of Scots’.
Sophia Hankinson
‘The Martineaus in Scotland’
Deborah Logan
‘The Collected Letters Project: Harriet Martineau’s Elusive Legacy’
Saturday 15 July
Aileen Christianson
‘Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: issues of biography, life writing and editing’ (Carlyle Society lecture)
Ted Hovet
‘”I am anything but unhappy” : Harriet Martineau’s exceptional contribution to American Studies’
18.00 Conference Dinner followed by
Sunday 16 July
Lucy Townsend
’Obituaries and Biographical Dictionaries: What can they offer the biographer?’
Ruth Watts
‘Harriet Martineau and Some of her Contemporary Female Writers’
Gaby Weiner
‘A Historical Survey of Eminent Women’
Thirteenth Annual Meeting, ‘A Fertile Soil’ 19-22 July 2007, Norwich.
Thursday 19th July
Lecture:
Emma Jarvis, Hospital Arts Coodinator, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital
Friday 20th July
Elisabeth Arbuckle
‘Harriet Martineau protests from Ambleside, 1866-1876’
John Warren
‘Temper and Temperance: HM and the Ambleside Community’
Sophia Hankinson
‘Fertile Soil: the Norwich background’
Saturday 21st July
Will Frank
‘Harriet in Virginia, 1835’
Valerie Doulton
‘Vera Wheatley and Harriet Martineau’
Shu-Fang Lai
‘Demerara - Heart and Head’
Ruth Watts
‘HM and the “imperial gaze“’
Deborah Logan
‘HM, Emancipation, and the Bicentary’
Sunday 22nd July
Valerie Sanders
‘HM and the Arnolds of Fox How’
Fourteenth annual meeting, 17-20 July 2008, Luther King House, Manchester
Thursday 17th July
Rev Dr Ann Peart, Principal, Unitarian College.
‘ Networks and Social Connections: The role of women in the Unitarian movement with special reference to Manchester’.
Friday 18h July
John Warren
‘Sister Anna's Footstool: Harriet Martineau and Roman Catholicism'
Sharon Connor
‘The Happiest Single Woman: Singledom in Harriet Martineau's "Deerbrook"’
Saturday 19th July
Ruth Watts
‘Harriet Martineau and the Bluestockings’
Will Frank
‘Harriet Martineau in Charleston, S Carolina, 1835: “Too Painful to Stay Long”’.
Mary Clark
‘Harriet, Elizabeth Gaskell and the Lake District’ (Gaskell Society presentation).
Alan Middleton
‘The religious journey of life as experienced by Harriet Martineau’
Sunday 20th July
Elizabeth Arbuckle
‘The Last Days of Harriet Martineau’
One-day AGM meeting, 19 May 2009, Birmingham Library
Sophia Hankinson: Presidential Address
‘Footprints and Memorials ‘
Alan Middleton
'Harriet's translation of Comte'
Gaby Weiner
‘Harriet Martineau and the Suspicions of Mr Witcher’
Extra Meeting, 15-19 July 2009, Eliot & Pickett Houses, Boston, USA
Wednesday15th July
Will Frank
‘Boston and Martineaus’
Thursday 16th July
Elisabeth Arbuckle
‘Harriet Martineau: Last Echoes from America’
Barbara Todd
‘Harriet Martineau At Home’
Friday 17th July
Jennifer Lavery
‘Unitarian Antislavery in Louisville, Kentucky: The City Where Harriet Martineau Feared to Tread’
Stuart Hobday Paper
‘Harriet Martineau’s influence on “Darwin’s Sacred Cause”’
Saturday 18th July
Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
‘Witch Hunts and Enlightenment: Harriet Martineau's Critical Reflections on Salem’
Sunday 19th July
Gaby Weiner
‘”The only woman in England who thoroughly possessed the art of writing”. Harriet Martineau and journalism’
16th Martineau Society Conference, 15-18 July 2010, Cumbria University, Ambleside
Thursday 15 July
Pamela Woof, President of the Wordsworth Trust
Title: Dorothy Wordsworth, Harriet Martineau, and the Lake District.
Friday 16 July
Ruth Watts:
'The spirited pen': The Ladies Treasury and Harriet Martineau
Barbara Todd:
Harriet Martineau and the Autograph/ Birthday Book
Saturday 17 July
Keiko Funaki: Re-evaluation of Harriet Martineau: Consideration in terms of Economic Thought