Harriet Martineau

Born

June 12, 1802

Died

June 27, 1876 (aged 74)

Known as

linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, novelist

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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