1841, besides three volumes of “Forest and Game Law Tales," “Feats on the Fiord,” and “The Billow and Rock.” This partial list of works, written by her while she was "a confirmed invalid,” gives us something of an idea of the indomitable energy of this marvelous woman.
Of her cure by mesmerism 1 have been unable to obtain the particulars, although Miss Martineau refers to it often in her letters to Atkinson. It made her, at all events for many years, and for aught I know to this day, a firm believer in clairvoyance and mesmerism. And Mary Russell Mitford, in a letter written in the winter of 1845, says:
“Everybody is talking of Miss Martineau’s somnambulisme. She writes to Miss Barrett (Mrs. Browning), wha forwards her letters to me. The last intelligence is that Lord Morpeth was on his knees, talking Greck and Latin and three modern languages to the poor girl, the Miss Liddells being present. When Imitation was touched
