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Born: 1812
Died: 1851
Title: Mrs.
born in Bristol; brought up a strict Baptist, she came to doubt orthodox Christianity after hearing lectures by secularists and socialists; left her husband and became a freethought lecturer, mainly in socialist halls in London and in the provinces; author of Religion Superceded (1850); gave private lectures to women on physiology in the 1840s; debated "marriage and divorce" with the Revd R. S. Bayley in the London Hall of Science, 1840; prevented from defending socialism, infidelity and phrenology against BRINDLEY in Leicester in 1840; supposed to have made a deathbed repentance, but the secularist HOLYOAKE nevertheless spoke at her graveside; gave a course of five lectures on phrenology at the Sheffield Hall of Science, 1839. (MEB; DNB)
| Identifier | 747. |
|---|---|
| Type | Person |
| Source | Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989) |
| PDF page | 230 |
| Printed page | 225 |
| Database ID | 2150 |
747. MARTIN, Mrs. Emma (1812-51), born in Bristol; brought up a strict Baptist, she came to doubt orthodox Christianity after hearing lectures by secularists and socialists; left her husband and became a freethought lecturer, mainly in socialist halls in London and in the provinces; author of Religion Superceded (1850); gave private lectures to women on physiology in the 1840s; debated "marriage and divorce" with the Revd R. S. Bayley in the London Hall of Science, 1840; prevented from defending socialism, infidelity and phrenology against BRINDLEY in Leicester in 1840; supposed to have made a deathbed repentance, but the secularist HOLYOAKE nevertheless spoke at her graveside; gave a course of five lectures on phrenology at the Sheffield Hall of Science, 1839. (MEB; DNB)