Author : Harriet Martineau
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ISBN 13 : 9781715720414
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (24 download)
Book Synopsis The Billow and the Rock (Esprios Classics) by : Harriet Martineau
Download or read book The Billow and the Rock (Esprios Classics) written by Harriet Martineau and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 - 27 June 1876) was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Martineau wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective. She also translated various works by Auguste Comte, and she earned enough to support herself entirely by her writing, a rare feat for a woman in the Victorian era. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed reading Martineau's publications. She believed a thorough societal analysis was necessary to understand women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant said "as a born lecturer and politician [Martineau] was less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation".