Harriet Martineau is born in 1802 in Norwich and loses her hearing in her teens. Yet she becomes a writer, and enjoys enormous success with stories that explain economics to everyone. She travels to the United States, where she speaks out against slavery, then goes through five years of illness. She also writes for a major London newspaper.
In this biography, Florence Fenwick Miller paints a portrait of a free and tireless woman who made herself heard at a time when women were rarely listened to.
With the translation always in front of you, this extraordinary life is easy to read in the language you are learning.
