Martin, Mrs. Not identified. The contributor's account of Breton wedding customs [III, 115–17. April 26, 1851] is obviously based on her observations. The opening paragraph of the article refers to the account as a "companion picture" to "A Welsh Wedding" in a preceding number (Feb. 15, 1851). Harper's, June 1851, reprinted "A Breton Wedding" without acknowledgement to H.W. The description of Breton wedding customs in "Social Customs of Brittany," Harper's, Jan. 1854, contains many of the same phrases and lines that appears in the H.W. article; the description seems to be an expanded and revised version of the H.W. article. 

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971