Margaret Fuller
considered this a hasty book, although HM
claimed that it took three years to write.
Chapman, Maria Weston, and Harriet Martineau. “Memorials of Harriet Martineau”. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, James R. Osgood, 1877, pp. 2: 131 - 596.
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Critic Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
, on the other hand, judges it to be among the most thorough sociological...
Literary responses
Harriet Martineau
Comte
himself was so impressed by her work that he had it translated into French and substituted for his own original in the Positivist Library, his personal selection of the 270 great books worthy...
Textual Features
Harriet Martineau
HM
remained throughout her life a staunch defender of free trade principles and government non-interference generally. She argued in one of her letters to the US National Antislavery Standard in 1861, for instance, that Protection...
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Texts
Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan. “’Words on Work’: Harriet Martineau’s Sociology of Work and Occupations”. Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, edited by Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Routledge, 2001, pp. 99-151.
Hoecker-Drysdale, Susan. Harriet Martineau: First Woman Sociologist. Berg, 1992.
Hill, Michael R., and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale. “Taking Harriet Martineau Seriously in the Classroom and Beyond”. Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, edited by Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Routledge, 2001, pp. 3-22.
McDonald, Lynn. “The Florence Nightingale-Harriet Martineau Collaboration”. Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, edited by Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Routledge, 2001, pp. 153-67.
Lengermann, Patricia Madoo, and Jill Niebrugge. “The Meanings of ’Things’: Theory and Method in Harriet Martineau’s ’How to Observe Morals and Manners’ (1838) and Émile Durkheim’s ’The Rules of Sociological Method’ (1895)”. Harriet Martineau: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, edited by Michael R. Hill and Susan Hoecker-Drysdale, Routledge, 2001, pp. 75-97.