The 2026 Martineau Society Conference will take place in the beautiful Lake District market town of Ambleside. In 1845 Harriet Martineau came to Ambleside to convalesce. In Ambleside she found…
This website has published an impressive project: the extensive biography of Harriet Martineau by Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle, entitled 'A Nineteenth-Century Woman's Engagement with Her Times': Harriet Martineau (1802–1876). The editors,…
Just to let you know well in advance, so you can save these dates and plan ahead: the 2026 Martineau Conference is going to be held at the University of…
Robert Martineau, a member of the Martineau family in Birmingham, set up the engineering company Martineau and Smith. Bessy White has some family letters in which the company is mentioned.…
On 23rd July at 6 pm at The Octagon Chapel in Norwich, Valerie Sanders of The University of Hull will present an overview of the life and work of Harriet…
Val McDermid delivered a memorable tribute to Harriet Martineau to a sold out audience. The annual Harriet Martineau Lecture, sponsored by the Martineau Society, was a big success. It took…
'Amazingly. this is our 50th issue of the Martineau Society Journal (if you include all the previous numbers called Martineau Society Newsletter).(...)' 'While we can contribute this (i.e. a shift…
The ITV programme DNA Journey with Ancestry features one of Harriet Martineau's descriptions of Ambleside. The quotes are set in the context of Ricky Tomlinson's Lake District connection and his…
Two of our members, Stuart Hobday and Gaby Weiner, are giving a talk about Harriet Martineau in Norwich at 3pm on October 24th 2024 in The Forum Library in Norwich.…