When Harriet Martineau, a reformer of the 1830s, wrote Society in America, one reviewer suggested it be kept away from women: Such reading will unsettle them for their true station and pursuits, and they will throw the world back again into confusion.
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About Harriet Martineau
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 →