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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 here The Live Literature Company is a performance company based

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 been published.  It explores the relationship between Charlotte Bronte and Harriet

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 all, through the use of fiction. Two of the twenty–five

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 Brontë family and the history of Manchester. It casts significant fresh

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 1831, a visit she followed up with a more extensive

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 UK (which are not due to reopen until 4 July),