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Harriet Martineau

English writer and sociologist

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born
1802
died
1876
age at death
74
known for
linguist, journalist, economist

1802 – 1876

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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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