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Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about HARRIET MARTINEAU!
Troubled by poverty and ill health in childhood, Martineau sent articles, stories and poems to magazines to earn money for her family. An anti-slavery campaigner, she travelled to America in 1834 but met hostility in the north and had to end her visit in 1835. She wrote Society in America (1837) to describe her experiences and How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838) to advise other travellers. One of few women to attempt a full-scale autobiography at this time, many contemporaries found her professional success unpalatable, prompting the writer Margaret Oliphant to describe the book as a ‘terrible instrument of self-murder’. She was also ridiculed for her growing interest in mesmerism (hypnosis).
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Harriet Martineau was a British social theorist and Whig writer . she was often cited as the first female sociologist . a highly respected Unitarian, he was deacon of the Octagon Chapel, Norwich from 1797 . she believed a thorough societal analysis was necessary to understand women’s status under men . her uncles included the surgeon Philip Meadows Martineau (1752–1829) she was close to her brother James, who became a philosopher and clergyman . according to the writer, Harriet’s relationship with her mother margaret’s mother urged all her children to be well read, but opposed female pedantics . her sister ran her own unitarian academy with artist Hilary bonham Carter as one of her students . margar in 1821 she began writing anonymously for the Monthly Repository, a unitarian periodical . in 1823 she published Addresses, Prayers and Hymns . she stepped out of traditional roles of feminine in her autobiography, she reflects on her success as a writer and her father’s business failure . her first commissioned book, Illustrations of Political Economy, was a fictional tutorial . illustrations was published in February illustrations was her first work to receive widespread acclaim . it would steadily out-sell the work of Charles Dickens . her success served to spread the free-market ideas of Adam Smith . non-fiction works about social, economic and political issues were dominated by men . despite gendered expectations, Martineau strongly expressed her opinions on a variety of topics . her frequent publication in the Repository acquainted her with Martineau met Florence Nightingale, Charlotte Bront, George Eliot and Charles Dickens later on in her literary career . Until 1834 Martineau was occupied with her brother James on the political economy series tales are direct, lucid, written without any appearance of effort, and yet practically effective . paternalists reacted by calling her a malthusian “who deprecates charity and provision for Harriet Martineau’s support of abolitionism caused controversy . her books, soon after her return, of Society in America (1837) and How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838), fuelled controversy the publication of Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy found public success . so much success that, “by 1834, the monthly sales had reached 10,000 in a decade in which a sale of 2,000 or “martyr age of the united states” (1839) introduced english readers to struggles of abolitionists in America . Charles Darwin spent days “driving out Miss Martineau”, who had returned from trip to edward mccaffery: astonished to find how little ugly Martineau is . he says she is overwhelmed with her own projects, her own thoughts and own abilities . Charles wrote to his older sister Susan thatErasmus has been with her noon, morning, and night: — if her character was not as secure, as a mountain in the polar regions she certainly would lose it. she also wrote Toussaint L’Ouverture: an historical romance (1839) she visited her brother-in-law to try to alleviate her symptoms . immobile and confined to a couch, Martineau stayed at boarding-house in Tynemouth for nearly five years from 16 March 1840 . the establishment is still open as a guest house today, now named the “Martineau Guest House” in her honour her illness caused her to literally enact the social constraints of women during this time . Martineau wrote a number of books during her illness . life in the Sickroom is considered to be one of Martineau’s most under-rated works . it upset evangelical readers as they “thought it dangerous in ‘its supposition of self-reliance'”. Martineau dedicated it to Elizabeth Barrett, as it was “an outpouring of feeling to an idealized female alter ego” written during a kind of public break from her mother, this book was Martineau’s proclamation critics dismiss Martineau’s piece on the same basis as critics: an ill person cannot write a healthy work . review recommends patients follow “unconditional submission” to advice of doctors . they disagree with idea Martineau: “there is none of the deadness of winter in the landscape” she declined a pension on the civil list, fearing to compromise her political independence . in 1844 Martineau underwent a course of mes mesmerism was designed to make invisible forces augment the mental powers of the mesmeric object . she eventually published an account of her case in sixteen Letters on Mesmerism . her work led to friction with “the natural in 1845 she published three volumes of Forest and Game Law Tales . in 1846 she resided with her elderly mother, Elizabeth, in Birmingham for some time . on her return she published Eastern Life, Present and Past (1848 she believed the ultimate goal to be philosophic atheism, but did not explicitly say so in the book . the book’s “infidel tendency” was too much for the publisher, who rejected it . Martineau wrote household education in 1848, lamenting the state of women’s education . she believed women had a natural inclination to motherhood and domestic work went hand in hand with academia for a proper, Martineau spanned a wide variety of subject matter in her writing . she has been described as having an “essentially masculine nature” it was commonly thought that a “progressive” woman was improperly e Martineau’s work served as the definitive guidebook for the area for 25 years . she edited a volume of Letters on the Laws of Man’s Nature and Development . her epistolary form is atkinson was a zealous exponent of mesmerism . literary London was outraged by its mesmeric evolutionary atheism . the book caused a lasting division between Martineau and her in 1852 to 1866, she contributed regularly to the Daily News . she wrote over 1600 articles for the paper in total . in 1854 she was among financial supporters who prevented its closing down . her partial deafness throughout life may have contributed to her problems . Various people performed mesmerism on her . historians attribute her apparent recovery from symptoms to a shift in tumor positioning . she supported the Married Women’s Property Bill and in 1856 signed a petition for it organised by Barbara Bodichon . she also pushed for licensed prostitution and laws addressed the customers rather than the women . martha peacock: Harriet Martineau postponed her book’s publication until after her death . she says she supported Darwin’s theory because it wasn’t based in theology . pea Martineau strove for secularism stating, “What an amount of sin and woe might and would then be extinguished” overthrowing (if true) revealed Religion on the one hand, & Natural ( she is seen as a frontrunner who merges fiction and economy . Martineau’s text sets the stage for women to enter into economics . women are rendered a part of larger-scale economics and encourage to learn the principles of political economy . “as early as 1831, Martineau wrote on the subject “Political Economy” Auguste Comte coined the name sociology and published a rambling exposition in 1839 . Martineau undertook a translation that was published in two volumes in 1853 . some writers regard Martin Martineau was buried alongside her mother in Key Hill Cemetery, Hockley, Birmingham . much of her extensive art collection was sold at auction the following April . in 1877 her autobiography was published. her book was regarded as dispassionate, “philosophic to the core” in its perceived masculinity . she deeply explored childhood experiences and memories, expressing feelings of being deprived of her mother’s affection . her brother she called on sociologists to do more than just observe, but also work to benefit society . Harriet was close to her niece Frances Lupton, who worked to open up educational opportunities for women . Harriet Martineau (1884, “Eminent Women Series”). Desmond, Adrian; Moore, James (1991). Darwin. ISBN 978-1-85196-804-6. ISBN 0-14-013192-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) Riedesel, Paul L. “Who Was Harriet Martineau?”, Journal of the History of Sociology, vol. 3, “Harriet Martineau: A reassessment (1802–1876)”, in Spender, Dale (ed.) Feminist Theorists: Three Centuries of Key Women Thinkers, “Martineau, Harriet”. Encyclopdia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. Virago, London 1983 Conway, Brian and Hill, Michael R. (2009) ISBN 9781904558668 Logan, Deborah Anna (2002). The Hour and the Woman: Harriet Martineau’s “Somewhat Remarkable” Life. Northern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0-87580-297-4. ISBN 0-8014-9414-1. Women on the Nile: Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, and Amelia Edwards . Rubicon Press: 1995, 2008. Sanders, Valerie (1986). Reason Over Passion: Harrie Harriet Martineau: authorship, society, and empire (Manchester University Press, 2011); 263 pages; essays on her views of race, empire, and history, including the 1857 Indian Mutiny and the Atlantic slave Ed. Dino Franco Felluga. Extension of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net. Web. Essay on Martineau’s burgeoning career as a writer. Harriet Martineau: The Poetics of Moralism. Scolar Press: 1995. Pichanick, Valerie Kossew. Harrie. Martineau. The Woman and Her Work, 1802-76. The Life and Work of Harriet Martineau. Essential Books: 1957. Wheatley, Vera. II (1876-1881). London: Macmillan and Co. 1893. pp. 1–7. Retrieved 26 February 2019 – via HathiTrust. Works by Harriet Martineau at Project Gutenberg Works the Bancroft Library Papers of Harriet Martineau are held at The Women’s Library at the Library of the London School of Economics .