Harriet Martineau Biography

A biography published in 1884 in a series on famous women. Florence Fenwick Miller tells the life of the Englishwoman Harriet Martineau, born in 1802 in Norwich into a family descended from French Protestant refugees. Deaf from her teenage years and without a sense of smell, she became a writer and won enormous success with stories that explain economics. The book follows her journey to the United States, where she took a stand against slavery, her five years of illness, her translation of Auguste Comte and her articles for a major London newspaper. A portrait of a free and tireless woman, drawing on unpublished letters.