Harriet Martineau
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Miss Martineau · Martineau
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Writer and popularizer of political economy.
At about the same date (1849-50) the lucid dogmatism of Miss Martineau demonstrated that the progress of England during the Thirty Years’ Peace was due to liberalism of the Benthamite type;
In 1849 Miss Martineau is well assured that the Act of 1825 was a necessary and salutary measure:
the Combination Act, 1825] combinations of masters and workmen to settle terms about wages and hours of labour are made legal;
The Genius of the Common Law
Writer who, after Macaulay's death, pronounced his Penal Code draft a complete failure, a judgment Pollock attributes to partisan bias.
It is curious to read that after Macaulay’s death in 1859 Harriet Martineau, a person of universal information who was often ill-informed, pronounced his draft a complete failure.