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Works of Harriet Martineau

Works of Harriet Martineau

PoliticsClassics
Published
2013
Language
French

Synopsis

This ebook compilation from The Perfect Library gathers fourteen works by the English social theorist and Whig writer Harriet Martineau (1802-1876): Deerbrook, Feats on the Fiord, Household Education, How to Observe, Principle and Practice, Retrospect of Western Travel (Volumes I and II), The Billow and the Rock, The Crofton Boys, The Essential Faith of the Universal Church, The Faith as Unfolded by Many Prophets, The Hour and the Man, The Peasant and the Prince, The Settlers at Home, and Society in America.

Spanning her fiction, educational writing, travel narrative, and religious and social commentary, the collection reflects the range of a writer who moved fluidly between novels, journalism, and works of ideas across five decades of public life.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

IntellectualThought-Provoking

Genres

Politics Classics Literary Fiction

About the author

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Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. 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. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough...