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Harriet Martineau
![Martineau by [[Richard Evans (portrait painter)|Richard Evans]], prepared by [[Thomas Lawrence|Sir Thomas Lawrence]] (1834)<ref>{{cite web |title=Harriet Martineau |url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitExtended/mw04251/Harriet-Martineau |website=National Portrait Gallery, London |publisher=NPG (London) |access-date=19 April 2023 |quote=This portrait appeared on the art market in 1885 from an unknown source (it had not come from the family). According to family letters, it was painted by Evans during 1833 and 1834, 'as a labour of love', so it may have been kept by the artist. It was first offered, as a work by Lawrence, to Sir Thomas Martineau}}</ref>](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Harriet_Martineau_by_Richard_Evans.jpg)
Harriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist. 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. Martineau advised a focus on all aspects of society, including the role of the home in domestic life as well as key political, religious, and social institutions. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her coronation in 1838. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."
Her commitment to abolitionism has seen Martineau's achievements studied world-wide, particularly at American institutions of higher education. When unveiling a statue of Martineau in December 1883 at the Old South Meeting House in Boston, Wendell Phillips referred to her as the "greatest American abolitionist". Provided by Wikipedia
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