Harriet Martineau

Details

Instance of

human

Born

12 June 1802

Died

27 June 1876

Place of birth

Norwich

Place of death

Ambleside

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Harriet

Family name

Martineau

Father

Thomas Martineau

Mother

Elizabeth Rankin

Sibling

James Martineau, Robert Martineau, Ellen Martineau, Elizabeth Martineau, Henry Martineau, Thomas Martineau, Rachel Ann Martineau

Field of work

economics, essay

Occupation

linguist, journalist, economist, historian, translator, novelist, sociologist, essayist, women's rights activist, philosopher, geographer, writer

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

date of burial or cremation

1 July 1876

depicted by

Harriet Martineau

described by source

Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Nordisk familjebok, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Geographers, Biobibliographical Studies, Library of the World's Best Literature, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.), A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing

languages spoken, written or signed

English, French

name in native language

Harriet Martineau

partner in business or sport

Henry George Atkinson

place of burial

Key Hill Cemetery

relative

Maria Martineau

topic's main category

Category:Harriet Martineau

writing language

English

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