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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, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. [4]
Jun 23, 2024 · Harriet Martineau (born June 12, 1802, Norwich, Norfolk, England—died June 27, 1876, near Ambleside, Westmorland) was an essayist, novelist, journalist, and economic and historical writer who was prominent among English intellectuals of her time.
Dec 29, 2020 · Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), was the first woman sociologist and is also referred to as the “mother of Sociology” by many of the contemporary sociologists who are bringing back her works into prominence.
Feb 3, 2020 · Born in 1802 in England, Harriet Martineau is considered to be one of the earliest sociologists, a self-taught expert in political economic theory who wrote prolifically throughout her career about the relationship between politics, economics, morals, and social life.
The daughter of a Unitarian Norwich cloth manufacturer, she shot to fame in 1832 as author of Illustrations of Political Economy – twenty-five short stories showing how economic conditions impacted on the lives of ordinary people in a variety of social environments.
Harriet Martineau was born in 1802, the sixth of eight children in an upper middle class English family. Her parents were Thomas and Elizabeth (Rankin) Martineau. Thomas was a manufacturer of textiles and an importer of wine in the old cathedral city of Norwich.
Nov 4, 2021 · The Victorian Woman Writer Who Refused to Let Doctors Define Her. Harriet Martineau took control of her medical care, defying the male-dominated establishment’s attempts to dismiss her as...
