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Harriet Martineau Quotes
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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| Birth: | 12th June, 1802 |
| Death: | 27th June, 1876 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Writer |
About
Harriet Martineau was born in Norwich, England. She was a British social theorist and Whig writer. She wrote many books and a multitude of essays from a sociological, holistic, religious, domestic, and perhaps most controversially, feminine perspective; she also translated various works from Auguste Comte. She wrote several books include: Society in America, Illustrations of political economy(novel), The hour and the man, The Crofton boys, Household education, Deerbrook(novel), The settlers at home, and The billow and the rock.
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