Harriet Martineau was the daughter of a Norwich
textile manufacturer, born in 1802, and was one of the leading thinkers of her
generation. She was a prolific writer and published twenty-five didactic novels
in a series called Illustrations of Political Economy; the first sociological
research text, How to Observe Morals and Manners; three volumes on her field
work in the United States, Society in America; and a book on her research in
the Middle East, Eastern Life: Present and Past. Ali Smith, one of our best
living writers - and a woman, and living and writing in the East of England! -
chose Martineau as her subject for the inaugural Norwich UNESCO City of
Literature Lecture in May this year. The event was organized by the Writers’
Centre Norwich, as part of The Norfolk And Norwich Festival, and a review of
the lecture can be found by clicking here
An article written by Kira Cochrane for The Guardian
about women and publishing in Britain today is also worth a read. Click here for more.
Finally, Words And Women have now got a Contact Us
page. Please feel free to use this to send us any information of events and
readings and publications which you think will be of interest to us, and which
you’d like us to advertise for you on this blog. We can’t promise we’ll be able
to advertise everything, but we will do our best.
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