WE are hoping that this years conference will go ahead. It is due to take place 18th-21st July which is after the official lockdown ends on 21st June. However, as…
Click here for two pre-recorded talks marking UK Disability History Month, 18 November - 20 December 2020. 1. Harriet Martineau: Living with deafness, in her own words Jenny Childs, Archivist…
Because of Covid-19, the 2020 Martineau Society Annual Meeting was postposed until 2021. As a result the AGM could not take place as usual. So it was decided to conduct…
Valerie Doulton has produced a podcast on Harriet Martineau, launched 14th November 2020, as part of Valerie's Live Literature Company podcast series on Deafness. To listen to the podcast, please click…
Some of you may remember the play by Martineau Society member Valerie Doulton which was performed at the annual Martineau Society meeting in London in 2019. The play has now…
English abstract: Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), sociologist, historian and novelist, was also a talented populariser. Illustrations of Political Economy (1832–1834) is her attempt to make Malthusian and Ricardian theories accessible to…
This book vividly presents previously undiscovered biographical information about Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of Mary Barton, Cranford, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, and Wives and Daughters. It also provides much contextual material about Harriet Martineau,…
The author Julie Donovan starts her article with this. 'Nowhere is the complexity of Harriet Martineau’s legacy more evident than in her writings on Ireland. Martineau traveled to Ireland in…
We were due to hold the annual conference in Scarborough in July, but given Covid and the continuing uncertainties around the safety of travel and of staying in hotels in the…
Hello from Eastern Washington University! Students in our “Major Authors” literature class during Winter Quarter 2020 read works by Charlotte Brontë and Harriet Martineau, and we discussed how these two…