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Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. [3] She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. [4]
How to Observe Morals and Manners is a sociological treatise on methods of observing manners and morals written by Harriet Martineau in 1837–8 after a tour of America. [1] She stated that she wasn't looking for fodder for a book, but also privately remarked that "I am tired of being kept floundering among the details which are all a Hall and a Trollope (writer of Domestic Manners of the ...
Harriet Martineau' Society in America; 1838. Events. Harriet Martineau' How to Observe Morals and Manners` References This page was last ...
[10] [1] [9] This book provides early descriptions of American life that preceded later works such as Alexis De Tocqueville's Democracy in America (1835 and 1840) and Harriet Martineau's Society in America (1837). [17] Wright's book is also an example of an early nineteenth-century humanitarian perspective of the new democratic world. [14]
Harriet Martineau wrote a letter to Davis in August 1851 to thank her for sending a copy of the proceedings: "I hope you are aware of the interest excited in this country by that Convention, the strongest proof of which is the appearance of an article on the subject in the Westminster Review... I am not without hope that this article will ...
Lupton's aunt Harriet Martineau paid a visit to the United States in 1834, one of her areas of interest was the emerging girls' schools. In Society in America (1837), the sociologist criticised the state of female education:
Harriet Martineau (United Kingdom, 1802–1876) Harriet Martineau. Some literature: Illustrations of Political Economy, 1832–1834; Theory and Practice of Society in America, 1837; The Martyr Age of the United States, 1839
The Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1833–1840) was an abolitionist, interracial organization in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-19th century."During its brief history ... it orchestrated three national women's conventions, organized a multistate petition campaign, sued southerners who brought slaves into Boston, and sponsored elaborate, profitable fundraisers."