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Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau. by: Sara Carrie Natascha Jamie Jennifer. Martineau’s life. Born June 12,1802 as the daughter of a textile worker, Martineau was a middle class citizen She was the sixth of eight children Before the age of 16 Harriet lost her sense of smell,taste, and hearing.

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Harriet Martineau

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  1. Harriet Martineau by: Sara Carrie Natascha Jamie Jennifer

  2. Martineau’s life • Born June 12,1802 as the daughter of a textile worker, Martineau was a middle class citizen • She was the sixth of eight children • Before the age of 16 Harriet lost her sense of smell,taste, and hearing

  3. Harriet’s Work Harriet was a writer of fictional and sociological works. She is famous for her work in translating Comte’s books. Martineau was a pioneer in the field of sociology, in her work Society in America she was the first to believe in the feminist theory

  4. Harriet’s Work Continued • Martineau work includes over 1,500 columns and about 61 books • But because Martineau was a women some of her pioneered beliefs were forgotten • Harriet was an advocate for freedom and emancipation of women as well as slaves. • “… Is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?” – this is an excerpt from Society in America where she explain how the country can not be based upon the saying and belief of a few men.

  5. Harriet was a strong believer in feminism. She joined abolishnist groups to help send out the message to those who felt that women were not important. She was the first to speak on the topic of women only being looked at as a secondary partner in a relationship. Martineau felt that women were worth more and could contribute more to society than just a house wife In “Critisicm on Women,” she talks of the abuse that when endure, she was revolutionary in the acts of helping women to learn to fight back Yet she was one of few to follow through with her beliefs b/c in that time is was unlike women to disobey there husbands Her Main Belief

  6. Towards the End of Her Life… • She had taken a trip to the Mid-East where she then wrote Eastern Life Past and Present, after this journey she had became an atheist this left her with very few supporters, including her family. • Then in 1876 she passed away from an illness, and now she is remembered as the first women sociologist

  7. Work Cited • http://media.pfieffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Martineau • www.webster.edu/~woolflm/martineau • www.quotationspage.com/quotes/harriet_martineau

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