Henry George Atkinson
1812–90
Friend of Harriet Martineau who advised her to try mesmerism, which brought about her dramatic recovery from ill-health. Co-author, with Harriet Martineau, of Letters on the laws of man’s nature and development (1851).
Source
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
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