Harriet Martineau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harriet Martineau

English writer and sociologist

Date of Birth: 12-Jun-1802

Place of Birth: Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 27-Jun-1876

Profession: writer, economist, historian, translator, journalist, sociologist, philosopher, essayist, linguist, suffragist, feminist

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Harriet Martineau (; 12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist.Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective.
She also translated various works by Auguste Comte, and she earned enough to support herself entirely by her writing, a rare feat for a woman in the Victorian era.
The young Princess Victoria enjoyed reading Martineau's publications.
She invited Martineau to her coronation in 1838 — an event which Martineau described in great and amusing detail to her many readers.
Martineau said of her own approach to writing: "when one studies a society, one must focus on all its aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions".
She believed a thorough societal analysis was necessary to understand women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant said "as a born lecturer and politician [Martineau] was less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation".