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  1. Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. 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]

  2. Mar 26, 2024 · Harriet Martineau was an essayist, novelist, journalist, and economic and historical writer who was prominent among English intellectuals of her time. Perhaps her most scholarly work is The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte, Freely Translated and Condensed, 2 vol. (1853), her version of Comte’s

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  3. Feb 3, 2020 · Harriet Martineau was the first woman sociologist. 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.

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  4. 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. Hence, although she was a staunch political, social and economical writer and prominent journalist of the Victorian era, it is only ...

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  6. Harriet Martineau, the daughter of a textile manufacturer from Norwich, was born in 1802. Her parents, Thomas and Elizabeth Martineau, were Unitarians and held progressive views on the education of girls. The four daughters of the marriage received a similar education to their four brothers. However, whereas the boys were trained for a career ...

  7. Nov 4, 2021 · The pain struck suddenly in Venice. Writing to her doctor brother-in-law in 1839, famed British writer Harriet Martineau complained of the “inability to stand or walk, aching and weariness of ...

  8. Nov 19, 2019 · Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was a prolific and versatile Victorian author who, in the course of her career, published in many disciplines. Having shot to fame in 1832 with her 2-year series of Illustrations of Political Economy, she spent the next 40 years actively promoting the causes she believed in, from anti-slavery to nursing reforms ...

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