There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land
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Harriet Martineau was a 19th-century English writer and sociologist. Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. Read more on Wikipedia →