Harriet Martineau Timeline

1802 born at Norwich

1818 school in Bristol with aunt; deafness appears

1821 Publishes "Female Writers of Practical Divinity" in Monthly Repository

1829 Family suffers severe financial loses

1832 Begins monthly Illustrations of Political Economy; becomes famous

1832 Moves to London

1832 Travels in America (until 1834)

1837 Publishes Society in America 1838 Publishes Retrospect of Western Travel and How to Observe Morals and Manners 1839 Publishes Guide to Service and novel Deerbrook

1839 Travels to Venice, becomes ill, recuperates (1839-1844)

1841 Publishes The Hour and the Man 1844 Publishes Life in the Sick-Room; writes on Mesmerism 1844 Buys land and builds house in the Lake Country

1846 Travels in Eygpt and Palestine

1848 Publishes Eastern Life, Present and Past 1849 (-1850) Publishes A History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace 1851 Translates Comte's Positive Philosophy 1851 Publishes with H. Atkinson, Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and

Development 1852 Publishes Letters from Ireland, first work for the Daily News, writes editorials

until 1869

1855 Becomes ill, writes Autobiography 1866 Signs parliamentary petition on women's suffrage

1869 (-1871) Campaigns against Contagious Diseases Acts, a leading feminist cause

1876 Dies at home in Ambleside, Lake District


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