He [Hans Christian Andersen] met a deaf lady with a long ear-trumpet at a garden party; she wrote political things, and after talking to her he had to lie down the whole afternoon; it was the redoubtable Miss Martineau.
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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 →