Quotes by Harriet Martineau
1802 – 1876
Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was unusual for being a professional full-time writer at a time when few women were able to pursue such a career. She was a translator, novelist, speech writer, and journalist who wrote a popular defence of the free market, pioneering travel writing about a trip to America, and on the woman question.
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Free Trade
Harriet Martineau condemns tariffs as a “vicious aristocratic principle” designed to harm the ordinary working man and woman (1861)
Colonies, Slavery & Abolition
Harriet Martineau on the institution of slavery, “restless slaves”, and the Bill of Rights (1838)