Women, emancipation and literature: the papers of Harriet Martineau, 1802-1876 (inclusive), [microform]

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English

Harriet Martineau was an author, journalist, social commentator, and leading feminist intellectual in the second half of the nineteenth century. She was most noted for her economic, social, and political contributions to the theories of her day, particularly on political economy, positivist philosophy, agnosticism, radical causes, emancipation and the abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, and better working conditions for domestic, agricultural, and factory laborers.

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, manuscript notes, and printed material documenting the life of Harriet Martineau. Among the noteworthy correspondents are Matthew Arnold, Florence Nightingale, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Samuel Courtauld, W. E. Gladstone, Robert Graves, Samuel Lucas, Lord John Russell, Maria Weston Chapman, and Henry William Wilberforce.

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June 01, 2002