Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. 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. The young Princess Victoria enjoyed her work and invited her to her 1838 coronation. Martineau advised "a focus on all [society's] aspects, including key political, religious, and social institutions". She applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected by her sex than perhaps any other, male or female, of her generation."

12 June 1802

Born on the same birth day (12 June): Adrian Toole • Antal Festetics • Blake Ross • Carl Hovland • Chips Moman • Christopher Derrick • Gustav Forsling • Héctor Garza • John A. Roebling • Jrue Holiday • Marie-Angélique Memmie Le Blanc • Otto Skorzeny • Oğuz Abadan • Philippe Coutinho • Raúl Héctor Castro • Samuel Cooper (general) • Spencer Abraham • Wade Redden • William Lundigan

Born in the same month (June 1802): Karl Zittel