Title page from Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, vol. 2 and Memorials of Harriet Martineau

Part of: Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, 2 vols. Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography, vol. 2 and Memorials of Harriet Martineau

Thinking she was close to death Martineau wrote her autobiography in 1855 but lived for another 20 years. She recounts her activities in various mid-19th century reform movements, her struggle to become a professional writer, and her work in popularizing the ideas of free market political economy. Vol. 2 also contains memorials of HM by Chapman.

Key Quotes

Free Trade

I perceive you ground your disapprobation of the protective system on the injustice and unkindness to foreign peoples. This is a very strong and quite indisputable ground, but it is not the one I have at all had in view at this time, or wished to bring forward in discussing the matter in the “…