Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 Vols.)
by: Martineau, Harriet; Chapman, Maria Weston [Editor]

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 4th Ed., 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete, 594, 596 pages. Bound in 3/4 red leather over marbled boards. Top edge gilt, gilt titles on spine faded slightly. Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) was an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rarely for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. Previous owner's bookplate inside front covers, otherwise clean.