“...I have not acquired any dread or dislike of death; but I have felt, for the first, time a keen and unvarying relish of life.”
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Harriet Martineau
Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. 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.
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culture · English writer and sociologist (1802–1876) · linguist · journalist · economist · historian · translator · novelist · sociologist · essayist · women's rights activist · philosopher · also Harriet Martineau, Martineau
Born 12 June 1802 · Died 27 June 1876 · Q234570
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The Daily Telegraph referenced Martineau as being "in many ways, the original influencer", comparing her with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, the sister-in-law of Catherine, Princess of Wales whose great-great grandfather Fra
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1960· 1 entry
Gaby Weiner, "Harriet Martineau: A reassessment (1802–1876)", in Dale Spender (ed
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1888· 1 entry
“Industrial Gains of Women during the Last Half-Century”
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1886· 1 entry
But destroyed in a fire in 1914; a plaster copy of the head survives in the Davis Museum at Wellesley College
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1881· 1 entry
States: "THESE VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE Memory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S
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1876· 1 entry
Died 1876-06-27.
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1859· 1 entry
His brother Erasmus sent a copy to Harriet Martineau
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1856· 1 entry
Signed a petition for it organised by Barbara Bodichon
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1854· 2 entries
“Why Should Not Woman Seek to Be a Reformer?”
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Was among financial supporters who prevented its closing down
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1853· 1 entry
As The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte (freely translated and condensed by Harriet Martineau)
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1849· 2 entries
Wrote The History of the Thirty Years' Peace, 1816–1846, an excellent popular history from the point of view of a "philosophical Radical"
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And updated by Martineau in 1870
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1848· 2 entries
“s education. She believed women had a natural inclination to motherhood and believed domestic work went hand in hand with academia for a proper, well-rounded education. She stated,”
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Lamenting the state of women's education
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1847· 1 entry
For John Saunders' The People's Journal she wrote a series of articles titled Homes for the People – Household Education
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1846· 1 entry
Resided with her elderly mother in Birmingham for some time, following which she then toured Egypt, Palestine and Syria with some friends
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1845· 2 entries
Martineau published three volumes of Forest and Game Law Tales
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Martineau left Tynemouth for Ambleside in the Lake District, where she designed herself and oversaw the construction of the house called "The Knoll" (made a Grade II listed building in 1974), where she spent the greater
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1844· 2 entries
Martineau underwent a course of mesmerism, returning to health after a few months
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Published Life in the Sickroom: Essays by an Invalid, an autobiographical reflection on invalidism
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1841· 1 entry
Published a series of four novels for children, The Playfellow, comprising The Settlers at Home, The Peasant and the Prince, Feats on the Fiord, and The Crofton Boys
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1839· 2 entries
During a visit to Continental Europe, Martineau was diagnosed with a uterine tumour
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“The Martyr Age of the United States”
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1837· 1 entry
Are prime examples of her sociological methods
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1827· 1 entry
And Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment in 1829
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1826· 1 entry
And in 1829, the family's textile business failed
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1823· 2 entries
Published Devotional Exercises and Addresses, Prayers and Hymns
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Harriet's brother James introduced her to a friend from school, John Hugh Worthington
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1821· 1 entry
Began to write anonymously for the Monthly Repository, a Unitarian periodical
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1802· 1 entry
Born 1802-06-12.
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