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" I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within and without ; arranged at all points with admirable neatness and comfort. Her visitors enjoy the most perfect liberty ; what she claims for herself she allows them. I rise at... "
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography ... - Page 402
by Harriet Martineau - 1877
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 2

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 352 pages
...extreme ; my recollection of my sisters intolerably poignant. I am better now. I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within...allows them. I rise at my own hour, breakfast alone (she is up at five, takes a cold bath, and a walk by starlight, and has finished breakfast and got...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 2

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 304 pages
...cold bath, and a walk by starlight, and has finished breakfast and got to her work by seven o'clock). I pass the morning in the drawing-room — she, in her study. At two o'clock we meet — work, talk, and walk together till five, her dinner hour, spend the evening together, when she...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...extreme; my recollection of my sisters intolerably poignant . I am better now. I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within...admirable neatness and comfort. Her visitors enjoy th« most perfect liberty; what she claims for herself she allows them. I rise at my own hour, breakfast...
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Life and Works of Charlotte Bronté and Her Sisters: The life of Charlotte ...

Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 pages
...extreme ; my recollection of my sisters intolerably poignant. I am better now. I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within...allows them. I rise at my own hour, breakfast alone (she is up at five, takes a cold bath and a walk by starlight, and has finished breakfast and got to...
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Harriet Martineau's Autobiography, Volume 3

Harriet Martineau - 1877 - 534 pages
...visit, — the second event in their earlier acquaintance. She says : — " I am at Miss Martineau 's for a week. Her house is very pleasant both within...alone. ... I pass the morning in the drawing-room, site in her study. At two o'clock we meet, talk and walk till five, — her dinner-hour, — spend...
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Pen Pictures of Earlier Victorian Authors

William Shepard Walsh - 1884 - 306 pages
...reminiscences contributed by James Payn, the novelist, to Harper's Monthly^ I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within...allows them. I rise at my own hour, breakfast alone (she is up at five, takes a cold bath, and a walk by starlight, and has finished breakfast and got...
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Golden friendships: sketches of the lives and characters of friends

F L. Clarke - 1884 - 278 pages
...extreme ; my recollection of my sisters intolerably poignant. I am better now. I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant both within...liberty ; what she claims for herself she allows them --.. " She is a great and a good woman, of course not without her peculiarities, but I have seen none...
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Harriet Martineau

Florence Fenwick Miller - 1884 - 246 pages
...Charlotte's life-long and most confidential friend, Miss Ellen Nussey : — " I am at Miss Martineau' s for a week. Her house is very pleasant both within...liberty ; what she claims for herself she allows them. . . . She is a great and good woman. . . . The manner in which she combines the highest mental culture...
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Pen-portraits of Literary Women, Volume 2

Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 310 pages
...perfect Bronte's ac. . , . , , count of a liberty ; what she claims for herself, she visit to Amallftws them. I rise at my own hour, breakfast alone. I pass...two o'clock we meet, talk and walk till five — her dinner hour — spend the evening together, when she converses fluently and abundantly, and with the...
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Pen-portraits of Literary Women, Volume 2

Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 312 pages
...promoted by it, she resumed it. MRS. FENWICK MILLER : ' Harriet Martineau.' I am at Miss Martineau's for a week. Her house is very pleasant, both within...arranged at all points with admirable neatness and com' TT . . . , Charlotte fort. Her visitors enjoy the most perfect Bronte's ac... , . . . . . ., ....
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