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Arbuckle, Elisabeth Sanders. ed. Harriet Martineau’s Letters to Fanny Wedgwood. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983).
Arbuckle, Elisabeth Sanders. ed. Harriet Martineau in the London “Daily News”. Selected contributions, 1852 – 1866. (New York and London : Garland Publishing, 1994).
Conway, Brian and Michael R. Hill. “Harriet Martineau and Ireland.” Pp. 47-66 in Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Séamas Ó Síocháin. Dublin (Ireland): University College Dublin Press, 2009. Available gratis online: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/361/
Crawford, Iain. “Harriet Martineau, White Women, and Slavery in the Antebellum South.” Nineteenth-Century Prose 47:2 (2020): 89-116.
Crawford, Iain. Contested Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
Crawford, Iain. “Harriet Martineau: Women and the World of Journalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain.” In Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Ed. Joanne Shattock. Cambridge UP, 2017: 317-27.
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In brief
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Harriet Martineau
English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)
Harriet Martineau | |
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Martineau by Richard Evans, prepared by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1834)[1] | |
| Born | (1802-06-12)12 June 1802 Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Died | 27 June 1876(1876-06-27) (aged 74) Ambleside, Westmorland, England |
| Burial place | Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Era | Early and mid-Victorian era |
| Known for | Thorough exploration in political, religious and social institutions, as well as the work and roles of women |
| Political party | Whig |
| Partner | John Hugh Worthington (engaged) |
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| Relatives | |
| Family | Martineau |
| Writing career | |
| Notable works | Illustrations of Political Economy (1834) Society in America (1837) Deerbrook (1839) The Hour and the Man (1841) |
Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist.[3] She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself.[4] The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation.[5][6