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Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation." [Wikipedia]

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English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)

Born 1802
Died 1876

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    First published in 1833 — 3 editions
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English writer and sociologist (1802–1876)

Born 1802
Died 1876

Subjects

Fiction, History, Economics, Social life and customs, Biography, Martineau, harriet, 1802-1876, Description and travel, Politics and government, Abolitionists, Antislavery movements, Correspondence, English Authors, Juvenile fiction, Social reformers, Slavery, Women social reformers, Education, English literature, Feminists, Manners and customs, Social conditions, Travel, Unitarianism, United states, social life and customs, Apologetics

Places

Great Britain, United States, England, Lake District (England), Ireland, Norway, États-Unis, France, Lake District, Middle East, Alexandria, Boston, Egypt, Georgetown, Grande-Bretagne, Haiti, India, Lincolnshire (England), Liverpool, Manchester, Massachusetts, Netherlands, Ontario, Scotland, Siberia (Russia)

People

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), Jesus Christ, Adolphe Fourier de Bacourt, Alexander MacKay, Anthony Trollope, Auguste Levasseur, Captain Basil Hall, Captain J. E. Alexander, Captain Marryat, Charles Augustus Murray, Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Charles William Janson, Edward Dicey, Edward Strutt Abdy, Elizabeth Pease Nichol (1807-1897), Ellis Gray Loring (1803-1858), Eneas MacKenzie, Ezra S. Gannett (1801-1871), Fanny Wedgwood (1800-1889), Francis Hall, Francis Trollope, François-Alexandre-Frédéric La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Fredrika Bremer, George Robert Gleig

Time

19th century, 1783-1865, 19e siècle, To 1865, 1764-1850, 1783-1848, 1790-1865, 1800-1837, 1815-1861, 1829-1837, 1837-1901, Bourbons, 1589-1789, British occupation, 1765-1947, Civil War, 1861-1865, Revolution, 1789-1799, Revolution, 1791-1804

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Alternative names

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  • Harriet Martineau
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  • Harriet] [Martineau
  • Harriet] 1802-1876 [Martineau
  • Martineau Harriet
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  • Martineau,Harriet
  • Harriet 1802-1876 Martineau

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