Martineau by Richard Evans, prepared by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1834)[1]
Born
(1802-06-12)12 June 1802
Norwich, Norfolk, England
Died
27 June 1876(1876-06-27) (aged 74)
Ambleside, Westmorland, England
Burial place
Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, England
Nationality
English
Era
Early and mid-Victorian era
Known for
Thorough exploration in political, religious and social institutions, as well as the work and roles of women
Political party
Whig
Partner
John Hugh Worthington (engaged)
Parents
Thomas Martineau (father)
Elizabeth Rankin (mother)
Relatives
Peter Finch Martineau (uncle)
Thomas Michael Greenhow (brother-in-law)
Catherine, Princess of Wales (5×great-niece)[2]
Family
Martineau
Writing career
Notable works
Illustrations of Political Economy (1834) Society in America (1837) Deerbrook (1839) 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] The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation.[5][6] 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."[4]
Her lifelong commitment to the abolitionist movement has seen Martineau's celebrity and achievements remain particularly relevant to American institutions of higher education such as Northwestern University with its Methodist foundations.[7][8][9] When unveiling a statue of Martineau in December 1883 at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, Wendell Phillips referred to her as the "greatest American abolitionist".[10] Martineau's statue was gifted to Wellesley College in 1886.[11]
^"Harriet Martineau". National Portrait Gallery, London. NPG (London). Retrieved 19 April 2023. This portrait appeared on the art market in 1885 from an unknown source (it had not come from the family). According to family letters, it was painted by Evans during 1833 and 1834, 'as a labour of love', so it may have been kept by the artist. It was first offered, as a work by Lawrence, to Sir Thomas Martineau
^Perrin, B. (18 April 2023). "Kate Middleton 'is a Brummie' claims history teacher ahead of Royal visit to city". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 24 April 2023. Mr Reed told BirminghamLive: "Kate's great great great great great aunt Harriet Martineau who died in 1876 – who is famous as the 'greatest American abolitionist' – is buried in the Jewellery Quarter at Key Hill cemetery. ...Kate and William will be visiting the Jewellery Quarter this Thursday, April 20.
^Hill, Michael R. (2002) Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94528-3
^ abPostlethwaite, Diana (Spring 1989). "Mothering and Mesmerism in the Life of Harriet Martineau". Signs. 14 (3). University of Chicago Press: 583–609. doi:10.1086/494525. JSTOR 3174403. S2CID 143910920.
^Martineau, Harriet (1877). Harriet Martineau's Autobiography. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. pp. 79–80. ISBN 9781108022583. Retrieved 10 February 2013. How delighted the Princess Victoria was with my 'Series'
^Wilson, Christopher (6 March 2011). "The benefits of a feminist in the family". The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
^Voelkner, K. (1997). Introduction to Harriet Martineau: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to the Present. Northwestern University. pp. 385–386. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
^McCrum, R. (15 May 2017). "The 100 best nonfiction books: No 67 – Household Education by Harriet Martineau (1848)". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2020. ...contemporary success, and short-term celebrity...she is a pioneer sociologist both in her own right as the author of books such as Society in America (1837)...
^Cosgrove, C. (2020). Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago: A Dual Biography of Mayor. SIU Press. p. 179. ISBN 9780809337941. Retrieved 7 February 2021. Other antislavery activists belonging to the circle of Chicago and Evanston Methodists included Northwestern University founder John Evans. Evans was an organizer of the Republican Party in Illinois, an opponent of the Fugitive Slave ...
^Phillips, W. (1891). Speeches, Lectures, and Letters of Wendell Phillips – Volume 2. Lee and Shepherd. p. 476. Retrieved 19 April 2023. [December 26, 1883 – Old South Meeting House in Boston]: Americans, I ask you to welcome to Boston this statue of Harriet Martineau, because she was the greatest American abolitionist.
HarrietMartineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle...
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was named after them. Martineau Place in Birmingham's central business district was named in their honour. HarrietMartineau (1802–1876), the sociologist...
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of Delphine's treatment of her slaves between 1831 and 1834 vary. HarrietMartineau (writing in 1838), recounting tales told to her by New Orleans residents...
370–415 CE), Anne Conway (1631–1679), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), HarrietMartineau (1802–1876), Sarah Margaret Fuller (1810–1850), Frances Power Cobbe...
collection of congratulatory writings to some princes, published in 1872. HarrietMartineau (United Kingdom, 1802–1876) Some literature: Illustrations of Political...
Oxford (2000), at 55. Rees, Joan. Women on the Nile: Writings of HarrietMartineau, Florence Nightingale, and Amelia Edwards. London: Rubicon Press (1995...
Bonham-Carter (d. 1865), who was an artist and friend of political journalist HarrietMartineau. Hilary's portraits of her cousin Florence Nightingale are held in...
contemporaries, however, were not supportive, including her former friend HarrietMartineau, who said that Fuller was a talker rather than an activist. Shortly...
Routledge. Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan. 2001. "HarrietMartineau and the Positivism of Auguste Comte." In HarrietMartineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives...
Flea. The English travel writer, novelist, and political economist HarrietMartineau (1802–1876) makes an odd reference to not seeing the comet in her...
theorist, abolitionist HarrietMartineau. James Martineau's children included the Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist Edith Martineau, and painter and woodcarver...
Machine Mary Jo Deegan, "Making Lemonade: HarrietMartineau on Being Deaf, pp. 41–58 in HarrietMartineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives...
Jacques Quetelet's The Propensity to Crime is published. Events HarrietMartineau's Illustrations of Taxation is published. Deaths December 23: Thomas...
1856 Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1861 John Henry Newman Apologia Pro Vita Sua 1864 HarrietMartineauHarrietMartineau's Autobiography...
on to describe the climb up Whelp Side and the view from the top. HarrietMartineau in 1855 described the ascent from Patterdale. Ponies could be taken...
Chamberlain; and Sir Thomas Martineau, who was the nephew of HarrietMartineau, another outspoken public figure and author. Sir Thomas Martineau (died 1893) was related...
produces 1 to 3 seeds. It is listed as a vulnerable species in Canada. HarrietMartineau, in recounting her travels in America in the 1830s, reported observing...
notable figures: Longfellow, Emerson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, HarrietMartineau, and Bayard Taylor, among others, none of whom was paid for their...
was a member of the Martineau family. Many portraits of Elizabeth's siblings, sociologist HarrietMartineau and James Martineau, a friend of Queen Victoria...
1842, he became the Poet Laureate and resigned his office. In 1846 HarrietMartineau moved into her new house, “The Knoll,” where she lived until her death...
Men's Souls, Maria Weston Chapman (1837) Woman, HarrietMartineau (1837) On Marriage, HarrietMartineau (1838) "Rights of Women: The Substance of a Lecture...
attaining sleep can be found in Illustrations of Political Economy by HarrietMartineau, from 1832: "It was a sight of monotony to behold one sheep after...
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